another what would you do with that

[flatwater]

I was able to get seven acetaline tanks that have been drained and the valves taken off. I have seen some nice gongs made out of them but what else might they be used for.
Flatwater

[bookwormom]

what is an acetaline tank?

[tufhelp]

I read someplace about a guy who made a mammoth “glockenspiel” like musical instrument with gas cylinders. He hung them up on a healthy timber cross beam rack and cut the bottoms off of them, varying the lengths to tune the 8 notes. (Do, Ra, Me….) He then welded on a small bracket with a 12v door bell plunger that was activated electromechanically to thump each cylinder. He ran the wires to a small control panel with eight momentary contact switches so he could play his oversized instrument. Basically a rudimentary scale, key of C, but there are tons of tunes you can play with just those eight notes. Must have had neighbors who are music lovers…

[flatwater]

Bookwormom, It holds gas and the other tank holds oxygen and you can either cut steel with it or weld/braze with it.
Flatwater

[cubcadet]

Hey flatwater,
I have an electric water heater that I`m going to convert to a waste oil heater. Mother Earth News has plans for them on their website. I bet that an acetylene tank would do ok, only, the steel is likely much harder to drill and cut.

[annabella1]

I bet they would be great for storing methane.

[machinemaker]

Acetylene is stored disolved in a storage media rather than compressed like most gasses. So an empty tank is not empty, it is very flamable, if compressed it can be unstable (read explode). The tanks are not a high pressure vessel like an oxygen cylinder. methane could be stored in them like propane, but remember the acetylene tanks are filled with a storage media and not empty. I would be extremely careful cutting them. they may be considered a hazardous material and hard to get rid of.
kent