Snyder Industries 22 Gallon ASTM XLPE Heavy Duty Vertical Storage Tank

Lincoln to the dock, class 250, nine pounds

Nine pounds is the number that governs this purchase, and it governs it through the freight bill rather than through the lift. The tank is molded at Lincoln, Nebraska, which is about as central a plant as there is, so the lane is short to the Plains, the Midwest, the Mountain West and most of the South, and it moves as freight at class 250 as the sheet lists it, shipping at 18 inches by 18 inches by 23 inches. That is the smallest shipment and the lowest class in the whole group, and the two go together: class follows density, and 9 pounds in a box under two feet on a side is the densest thing here relative to the space it occupies. Price the route in the freight cost estimator before you commit, and the listed price is before freight. The practical move is to buy the second one at the same time, because two shipments this small ride for very little more than one, and the second tank is what turns a single vessel into a working pair: one in service while the other is washed out. Receiving is one person and a flat spot. Where it lands is worth thirty seconds of thought even so. Full of water there are 183 pounds sitting on an 18 inch circle, and a rotationally molded floor carries its load on every part of the surface it touches, so the tank wants a continuous shelf, slab or steel stand rather than a pair of rails, a stringer pallet or a bench with a soft spot in the middle. At 23 inches tall it is a stable shape, but it is also light enough to be shoved by a passing cart, so it gets a bracket or a strap anywhere near traffic. Then size it honestly: run 22 gallons against your real draw and your refill interval in the tank sizing calculator, and take the reserve and the freeboard a warming liquid needs from the tank sizing guide.

The white tank in the 18 inch shell

Three tanks hold 22 gallons in this 18 by 23 inch shell at 9 pounds, and this is the only one you can see through. That is the reason to take it, and on a small vessel it is a bigger reason than it sounds: with no published lid size and no published base fitting, the level is the one thing a natural white shell tells you for free, every time somebody walks past, without a float, a probe or a lid coming off. The N48 is the same cross-linked wall in black, which you buy when light degrades the liquid and you accept a blind tank in exchange; the N51 is the black tank in the high density wall its own sheet names, and a high density tank on the same part stem is stocked as well, rated as its own sheet says. Whether your chemistry needs the cross-linked wall at all, or whether the high density tank is the honest buy, is argued through in crosslinked versus high density polyethylene for chemistry duty. The one neighbor is the 1541000N51, a black 30 gallon tank 23 inches across and 23 inches tall at 18 pounds: the same height, a wider base, half again the volume, twice the shipment to store. On an 18 inch shelf, this tank is the one that fits.

Comparing across brands too? Call 866-418-1777; we carry Norwesco, Snyder, Chem-Tainer, Enduraplas and Bushman and will say which one fits, or price the freight first.

No size on the lid, no size under it

• Access: the tank is 23 inches tall, so the opening sits at bench height and is worked standing, with no ladder and no fall exposure. The sheet names one manway or lid in the outlet field and publishes no diameter for it, so the opening hardware is confirmed at order. Nothing about its size appears on this page, because nothing about its size is on the sheet.
• Outlet: the sheet lists the outlet as 1 Manway / Lid and publishes no bottom fitting diameter, material, thread or gasket. Tell us the liquid and the pipe size you are tying into and the draw-off is specified with the order.
• Service limit: 140 F / 60 C.

Two unsized fields means this is a tank you specify rather than one you configure off a page, and at 22 gallons that is normal rather than alarming. Plan it top-down. Under two feet of liquid there is effectively no suction head, so the contents leave either through a tube dropped in from above or through a base fitting specified at order and a pump mounted below the tank where gravity keeps it primed; most shops end up with a small pump on a bracket and a dip tube, and it works. Fill down a tube rather than into open air, because a short drop still aerates a liquid and still splashes back. Run any vent outdoors on a liquid that fumes, and size the vent to the pump rather than to the opening. The white shell earns its keep here: keep the lid shut between fills and read the level from outside, which is both safer and faster than opening a vessel to look into it. Name the one liquid on the wall in paint, and put a light against the shell rather than inside it. Where it freezes, a tank this small freezes through fast, so bring it in or keep the room warm instead of trying to trace it.

Where seeing the liquid matters more than shading it

Twenty-two gallons in a shell you can see through is the vessel for jobs where somebody has to know the level at a glance: a day tank under a metering pump where a missed refill stops the dose, a make-up or rinse reservoir on a plating or wash line, a feed tank in a greenhouse or nursery aisle, a catch vessel under a sampler, a reservoir on a skid or a trailer where 9 pounds empty matters, and any bench job where the biggest tank one person can carry is the right tank. It is the wrong buy for a liquid that light degrades; that is what the black tank in the same shell is for, and the trade is real in both directions. Where site rules require secondary containment even around a vessel this small, the Captor double wall freeboard guide sets out what containment costs in usable volume, and a spill pallet under this tank follows the same arithmetic. Honest limitation: it arrives unplumbed, with neither opening nor base fitting sized on the sheet, so if you need it ready to pipe on day one, put that on the order.

A nine pound shipment on a class 250 lane

The 1530000N42 leaves Lincoln, Nebraska shipping at 18 inches by 18 inches by 23 inches and moves as freight at class 250 as the sheet lists it. The freight cost estimator prices the lane to your ZIP, and the listed price is before freight. There is no equipment to arrange and no lift plan to write: one person takes 9 pounds off a tailgate and carries it where it is going. Spend the effort on the order instead of the delivery, because the shipment is small enough that a second or third tank changes the per-tank freight more than anything else you can do. Look the shipment over and write anything you see on the ticket before you sign it. Water test before product: fill it to the lid, stand it a shift where a spill costs nothing, read the base and the seam through the white shell, then drain and dry. Then do the one thing a white tank makes worth doing: mark the working level and the refill level on the outside of the shell, so nobody has to guess or open it. Write the fill date on the manway with a paint marker; it answers the first question anyone asks about a tank.