Snyder Industries 120 Gallon Cubetainer Tank with Brass Dipense Fitting

Who draws from a cubetainer: the bench, the bay and the mix station

The buyer for this container is somebody who meters liquid out by hand, several times a day, in the same spot. A maintenance shop drawing lubricant, coolant or cleaner into jugs and pails. A fleet or truck wash keeping a working supply of detergent at the bay rather than walking to a drum. A grounds, turf or greenhouse crew filling backpack and hand sprayers off a bench. A plating line, laboratory or food plant holding one ingredient at one station. A farm shop keeping an additive at the mixing bench. A janitorial or municipal store issuing concentrate to crews. The pattern never changes: a person opens a fitting by hand, fills a smaller vessel, and closes it again, and the container has to be at a height that makes that easy. That is why 30.5 inches matters more than the gallons do. Two and a half feet is bench-adjacent height: high enough to put a pail under the fitting without kneeling, low enough that the 8 inch lid can be looked into without a step, low enough to ride in a pickup bed below the line of the sides, and low enough to live under most shelving. Set against that, a 36 inch square is nine square feet of floor for 120 gallons, which is a poor trade where floor is the thing you are short of; a drum on a dolly wins that one comparison and loses every other. Underneath, flat and continuous is not a nicety. The body bears on the whole surface it is resting on, so a bench with a bowed top, a pallet with a cracked deck board or a truck bed with a toolbox lip under one edge puts 1,001 pounds of water, or up to 1,902 pounds of contents at the rating, onto that high point instead of across the base. Where the container stands on a slab rather than on a pallet or a deck, the framework for getting the concrete right is in the concrete pad sizing framework and it scales down to a footprint this size. Before you settle on 120 gallons, run it against your real daily draw and the interval between refills in the tank sizing calculator, and take the reserve you should never dip into and the headspace a warming liquid needs from the tank sizing guide.

The cubetainer, the slimtainer and the 80 below them

Three of these hold 120 gallons and none of them is the same purchase. The real comparison is with the SII-1035500N95401, the slimtainer, which carries exactly the same 120 gallons and the same 1,001 pounds of water in a rectangle 54 inches long and 22 inches wide at 60 pounds. Take this square one when the space is generous in both directions and the container has to be worked over from more than one side; take the slim one when the width is fixed at less than two feet and the length is free. This body is also the one that gives you the most useful working height of the pair at 30.5 inches against 32 inches for the slim one, which sounds like nothing until a pail has to go under the fitting. Below both, the SII-1032100N95401 is the same 36 inch square at 21.75 inches tall and 50 pounds for 80 gallons, which is the choice when the container has to live under a shelf or on a bench and the draw is small. The other two part numbers on this sheet are a different animal: the sheet names the SII-5700102N95704 and the SII-5710102N95704 as used oil containment tanks with a level gauge, 34 inches square and standing 51 and 62 inches, at 100 and 110 pounds. They are taller, heavier and named for a duty, and the sheet publishes no containment volume or percentage for either, so this page makes no containment claim on their behalf. Tell us the liquid and the job and we will tell you which of the five the manufacturer's own documentation supports.

Need a different size? Every tank in the table is in stock programs; ask for a quote on the one that fits, or call 866-418-1777.

Gravity draw off a brass fitting, and two figures the sheet gives without units

• The draw path: there is no pump in this arrangement and there does not need to be. The container is filled where it will stand, and the liquid comes out under its own weight through the named brass dispense fitting into a jug or a pail. That is the whole design, and it is why the fitting rather than the shell is the part that decides whether you like this container: a metal fitting takes the handling a tap on a bench actually gets, which is a hand on it a dozen times a day and something knocked against it once a month.
• Where to put the fitting: on the side nobody walks past, clear of the edge of whatever the container is resting on so no load can be set against it, and never used as a handle to drag or lift by. Leave enough room under it for the tallest vessel you fill.
• The outlet as the sheet lists it: the sheet gives the outlet as 1 and gives no unit, so this page prints the figure and nothing more. It is not a pipe size. Tell us what you intend to connect and we will confirm the thread and the fitting against Snyder's current documentation first.
• The inlet as the sheet lists it: the sheet gives the inlet as 2, again with no unit, and the same discipline applies. In practice a container this shape is filled through the lid, from a hose or a jug, while it stands in the place it will be drawn from.
• Access: an 8 inch lid, which is enough for a fill hose, a light and a hand for a wipe-out. Keep it closed between draws; a shallow, wide vessel collects dust, insects and rain faster than a deep one because the whole surface is near the top.
• No temperature limit on this sheet, so none is stated: tell us the temperature the liquid arrives at as well as the temperature it sits at, and we will check it against Snyder's documentation rather than guess.

The rest is handling discipline, because a square container in service is hurt by people rather than by pressure. Fill it where it will stand. At 63 pounds empty it is a two-person lift, and full it is not a lift at all: 1,001 pounds of water, or up to 1,902 pounds of contents at the rating, wants a pallet jack, a forklift or a drum handler under it. Liquid in a wide, shallow body sloshes with a long slow wave, so a cubetainer carried part-full on a truck bed pushes side to side harder than a tall tank does and has to be strapped at the pallet rather than around the body. Label it with the one product it holds and keep it to that product, because a shallow vessel is easy to rinse and hard to prove clean. And read the level by eye through the lid rather than by weight: on a 36 inch square, an inch of depth is a lot of gallons.

Shop fluids, additives and wash chemicals drawn a pail at a time

The work this container is bought for is the small, repeated draw: lubricant, coolant and cleaner at a maintenance bench; detergent and pre-soak at a truck or car wash bay; a single ingredient held at a station in a food, beverage or plating plant; a concentrate issued to grounds and turf crews; an additive kept at a farm mixing bench instead of a drum in another building; a janitorial store dispensing to carts. When 120 gallons stops being enough, the honest move is up to bulk storage rather than out to several more containers, because the handling cost of a row of small vessels overtakes the price difference quickly. Where this container is one stage in a system that collects, holds and re-uses water rather than a standalone vessel on a bench, the industrial water reuse tank topology article places a vessel this size in the sequence and says what has to be true upstream of it. One honest limit: there is no containment of any kind here, and the sheet publishes no containment figure, so if your site rules require a contained vessel this is not the product and we will say so rather than sell you one.

St. Bonifacius, Minnesota, 63 pounds on a pallet

This cubetainer is molded at St. Bonifacius, Minnesota, and the sheet gives the class as LTL with the NMFC as 156600-03, shipping at 36 inches by 36 inches and a shade over 30.5 inches of body height. The freight cost estimator prices the lane to your ZIP, and the listed price is before freight. At 63 pounds and a 36 inch square it sits at the awkward boundary where a parcel rate and a pallet rate can both apply, so tell us at order whether there is a dock, a forklift or neither at the delivery address, because a square shipment at a door with no dock is a curbside drop and two people carrying. Check the base, the lid and the dispense fitting before the driver leaves, and keep the pallet it arrives on: it is the handling equipment for the rest of this container's life, it is what a pallet jack picks up, and it is what keeps the base off a wet floor. Before the first working fill, put clean water in it, let it stand where it will live, and look under the base, around the lid and at the fitting through the hold. Write the fill date and the product name on the lid in paint marker the day it goes into service, because the first question anybody asks about a container at a bench is what is in it and how long it has been there. Keep the first delivery's paperwork with the tank; strength and date on day one is the baseline for every batch after.