Snyder Industries 210 Gallon ASTM XLPE Heavy Duty Vertical Storage Tank

West Virginia molding and a lane priced on cube, not weight

Philippi, West Virginia is the only origin the sheet gives for this part number, which makes the freight question simple and worth asking first: how far is your dock from the Ohio Valley. Sixty-five pounds is nothing to a carrier, and a parcel 36 inches square and 55 inches tall is a genuine block of deck space, so the bill is written against the cube and the miles rather than the mass, and class 300 is only the starting point. Run the ZIP through the freight cost estimator before the requisition goes in, and the listed price is before freight. The saving on a short lane is best spent on the floor under the tank. Full of water this one carries 1,751 pounds and at the rating 3,328, every pound of it bearing on a 36 inch circle, because a rotationally molded base carries across its whole footprint and on nothing else. That is a heavier point load than a shop floor is usually poured for, so check the slab is level and in full contact under the entire base rather than rocking on a trowel ridge, and where a pad has to be poured the concrete pad sizing guide is the framework, with a berm sized to the tank wherever the liquid is regulated. Empty at 65 pounds and nearly five feet tall, it is a tank a pallet jack can shove and a gust through an open door can topple, so it gets braced or strapped where it stands on day one. The natural white shell is the reason a lot of buyers pick this range: the liquid line is visible through the wall in decent light, which is worth having on a tank that is hand-charged. The same property lets daylight into the liquid, so anything that light degrades belongs in a black wall instead. Check 210 gallons against the draw between deliveries in the tank sizing calculator, and take the reserve and the thermal freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

One 55 inch shell, and the weight the sheet will not explain

Read the weight column before the part numbers. Three tanks in this shell are listed at 65 pounds and the 1012900N48 is listed at 70; the sheet gives both figures and we print what it says without explaining it. Buy this one when the chemistry asks for a cross-linked wall and the operator needs to see the level; buy the 1012900N48 when the same chemistry has to be kept in the dark. The C34 and the C26 are the other two gradings in the shell, each rated as its own sheet says, the C34 black and the C26 not. The neighbours are height decisions on the same 36 inch footprint: the 1008000C26 is shorter at 53 inches for a shelf or a cabinet that will not take this one, and the 1008100C26 is 64 inches for a room with the clearance to spare. All three put their weight on the same size circle, so the pad does not change with the choice.

Neighboring size a better fit? Every row links to its own page; freight to your ZIP is quoted on each, or call 866-418-1777.

A manway at four feet seven inches suits a step ladder

• Access, and it is the first number to plan around: the 18 inch threaded, vented manway sits at 55 inches, four feet seven inches off the floor. That is high enough that a short person cannot see into it flat-footed and low enough that a one-step platform solves it completely. A step that bears on the floor and not on the tank is the cheapest part of the install and it decides whether this tank gets inspected monthly or annually.
• Outlet: the sheet gives the outlet field as "1 Manway / Lid" and carries no bottom fitting size at all. Printed as the sheet has it; it is not a pipe size and we will not read it as one. Name the liquid and the draw-off you need at order and we confirm what this molding takes before anything is cut.
• Fill and vent: the 18 inch opening takes a dip tube to the floor so the incoming stream does not free-fall and foam in the headspace; the vent runs outdoors on anything that fumes and is sized to the pump filling the tank rather than to the nearest fitting.
• Service limit: 140 F / 60 C, as this sheet gives it. Warranty: 3 year.

A lid just above reach is the height where bad habits form, because leaning across a rim is easier than fetching a step, and a gasket cross-threaded from an awkward angle is the commonest small-tank failure there is. Put the step in when the tank is installed. Then every opening can be done properly: a light on the band of wall above the liquid line, a look at the threads and the gasket seat, the date on the log, and the lid reseated square. Keep it closed in between so vapour stays in and rain stays out, put the one liquid's name on the wall where it is read from the doorway, and where the site freezes protect the draw-off piping and the first valve rather than the body, which ices from the top down without harm.

Small water plants and greenhouse feed

Two hundred and ten gallons in a white cross-linked wall is a feed tank rather than storage: hypochlorite or a coagulant at a small water system, a caustic or acid make-up tank on a treatment skid, a nutrient concentrate in a greenhouse headhouse, a sanitiser station in a dairy or food plant, a bath chemical reservoir beside a finishing line. The XLPE versus HDPE article is the honest place to settle whether the cross-linked wall is what your chemistry needs or a default you inherited. Where the room rule or the insurer wants the chemical inside a second wall, the Captor double wall freeboard guide works out how much usable volume a contained vessel actually leaves at this size, which is never the figure on the label.

Class 300 out of the Ohio Valley

The sheet gives class 300 and 65 pounds shipping weight from Philippi, West Virginia, and on a parcel this shape the distance and the deck space are what you are paying for: put the ZIP into the freight cost estimator and read the listed price as before freight. Sixty-five pounds comes off a liftgate with two people, hands under the base and never a strap through the manway, and it should be walked to its final position empty, because moving it later means draining it first. Look at the base edge, the manway threads and the vent while the driver is still on site and there is somebody to sign a damage note. Then fill it with water to the manway where it will live, hold it using the times in the hydrostatic test methodology article, walk the base, drain it and let it dry before the chemical arrives. Because this shell has a heavier listing in it, write the empty weight from the bill of lading onto the tank wall with a paint marker; on a shell where the gradings look identical, the weight is the only field proof of which one you own. Once it is full and holding, leave it alone for a day before the plumbing goes on; a settled tank is a quiet one.