180g Sump Repair

This one is a hot mess





Euro snapped off in 2 places








Corner seam gave out (capillary weld)





Bottom panel cracked





All welds were done with just capillary action








The plan is to:


1) drill a hole to stop the crack from progressing


2) re-weld the vertical joint (rough weld)


3) re-attach the euro sections


4) gusset all seams (top, bottom, vertical) with 3/4" triangle rod and square rod in the corners using Weld-On #40


5) patch in missing (cut out) euro sections with 3/8"


6) laminate entire euro with 1/4" strips


I cleaned it up eariler this week but pic is still on my phone...

 

LOL yup, hopefully. I should have enough of the triangle rod left over to put gussets along the corners of the lower half of the old Grove & Platt tank also. Maybe I will end up with an extra frag tank out of that piece of trash after all. All it will need then is a top euro of some kind...

 

Tank cleaned up



Welded the bottom joint and crack in the bottom panel. Solvent wicked in pretty well



Weight on it



I did skip the drilling of the crack. I will do this later...