Norwesco 710/1010 Gal Drainable Leg Tank Long Support Bands

Ordering for a leg tank that is already on site

Most of the people buying a part like this are not buying a tank at the same time. The tank is already standing, the band is the thing that needs replacing or the thing that turned out to be missing, and the job stops until it arrives. That changes what matters: not comparison, but getting the right part number on the order the first time.

So quote 60585 rather than a description. Descriptions of steel bands are almost interchangeable when read aloud over a phone, and part numbers are not. If the tank on site has no legible paperwork left on it, measure before you order rather than reading a dimension off a web page, because this record settles the band's own size and settles nothing about what is in your yard.

The word long is in the store name and we repeat it as the catalogue writes it. What that word means in Norwesco's own numbering is a question for Norwesco's own paperwork; this record does not define it and we are not going to define it on their behalf.

The record carries no companion row, so the name has to speak for itself

Open the related-records list on 60585 and there is nothing in it. No second part number, no alternate size, no matching hardware kit, no host tank record attached. The row is complete in the sense that it is all there is, and short in every other sense.

What that leaves is the dimensions and the name. The steel is 51 inches, 2 inches and 48 inches on the three cells. The name is plural, Support Bands, and it carries no quantity figure anywhere, so how many arrive and how many a given tank takes are both questions this record does not answer. That is the limitation, stated plainly: confirm the count with the seller before the order goes out rather than assuming a plural implies a pair.

The gallon figures in the title, 710 and 1010, belong to the drainable leg tanks the band is named for. They are not this part's capacity, weight or dimension, and nothing about those tanks' duty, contents or service becomes a statement about a strip of steel because the two share a title.

Drainable leg tanks in the title, metal tank bands in the drawer

Two catalogue fields place this row. The type cell reads Tank Bands and the application cell reads Metal Tank Bands. That is the shelf it sits on: steel strapping parts, measured and weighed and shipped, with none of the cells a tank record would carry. Above it, the title points at drainable leg tanks, which is the host family and not a claim about this part.

It is worth being clear about what that pointer is and is not. Norwesco maintains the relationship between its bands and its tanks in its own literature, not in this row, so the title tells you what the part was catalogued for and the manufacturer's documentation tells you whether it is right for the vessel you have. Where those two disagree, the manufacturer wins and this page is not the tiebreaker.

Steel against the tank, and every fastener question left alone

Hardware is the first thing anybody asks about a support band and the thing this record does not carry. There is no fastener named, no fastener count, no anchor detail and no hardware column populated anywhere on 60585. We are not going to name one. If what arrives as shipped matters to your schedule, that is a question to put to the seller before the purchase order, with the part number in hand.

What the record does carry is the steel and the face it presents. Two inches is the width of that face; 51 inches and 48 inches are the two long figures the catalogue measured it across. The record puts no shell diameter, no tank dimension, no drawing reference and no mounting detail beside them, so the relationship between those three numbers and the tank they are meant for is established by the manufacturer's paperwork and by nothing on this page. That is the honest shape of a band record and it is the reason the drawing is worth asking for.

Seventeen pounds of steel that ships at fifty

Five plants are printed: Hanford in California, Sheldon in Iowa, St. Bonifacius in Minnesota, Washington Court House in Ohio and Shawnee in Oklahoma. The ships-from cell reads California, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio and Oklahoma, so plants and states agree exactly on this record, which is not true everywhere in this drawer.

The freight class cell reads LTL, which is a ship mode rather than a class number, and the ship mode cell reads LTL as well. The NMFC cell reads 95190-01. The listed price is before freight, and the freight cost estimator will take your ZIP and return the real number for your address. The empty weight cell reads 17 lb and the ship weight cell reads 50 lb; both figures are on the record and the lane is priced off what the carrier weighs, not off what the part weighs on a bench.

When the shipment arrives, stand it on edge and sight down the length of the steel like a carpenter reading a board. A band that is four feet long and two inches across will show a twist along its length far more clearly than it shows a dent, and a twist is the kind of damage that is easy to miss flat on a pallet and impossible to miss end-on. Do that before the shipment leaves the dock area, because a band that has been carried across a yard has stopped being the carrier's problem. Keep one spare gasket for the outlet fitting on the shelf; it is the part that fails on a holiday.