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cavemanrich said:
Pasha,, I am just like you in many ways. I always try to repair/fix things. Many around me just throw things away:(
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It is definitely too early to throw it away, the plastic of this tank is still quite strong. Such tanks are sold here for 2500 rubles ($29), or 5000 rubles ($58) if they are well washed. Most often, these are tanks from some chemicals (but not poisons), but some resources for the chemical industry. Once I came across a tank from ink (!) that is used to fill ballpoint pens. That is, 1000 liters of ink. The ink, of course, was used at the enterprise, and the dirty empty tank went on sale.

Usually these tanks have the following fate: they are washed somewhere anyhow, possibly causing some harm to the environment, but there is no other choice, then these tanks go to the construction industry, where they are used to transport or store water for secondary concrete structures (foundations of greenhouses, sheds, fences), and then, after some time, when a lot of water has been in the tanks and washed out, they are moved to vegetable gardens, where they are used to water first just park trees (inedible), and then garden trees.

Well, if the drain had to be sealed tightly and a new one made, then usually a hole is simply drilled, a thing like this is inserted (a little fumite tape, flax fiber is attached, or a piece of rubber is cut from an old tube from a bicycle, wheelbarrow or car),

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and on the other side something like this is screwed on (also with fumite tape and rubber)
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The flight of fantasy here is absolutely unlimited - you can use brass, stainless steel, polypropylene - any old or new tap that you have at hand. I just had a lot of polypropylene, and the gray pipe is generally Turkish production, it is already 20 years old, it once served somewhere and was cut out and replaced with a new one (I made a water supply system somewhere, although I don’t even remember who and where), well, and I also had this tap for 50 rubles, and I decided to use it. The whole point of this design is to open the tap in the fall so that water flows out of the tank, because if frost hits in the winter, the tank will deteriorate.

Well, I must admit that I have at least 12 of these tanks, that is, I collect 12 tons of water during the rains. I also have smaller tanks, barrels, and old bathtubs, borrowed from someone or bought for next to nothing. It is very convenient - the water itself is collected from the roofs, and then I water the garden during the drought. I live in Russia, the region here is not arid, the law does not prohibit collecting water from the roofs, the rivers will not become shallow from this. Well, yes, I am that same psychopath who once, having learned from an ad about a free old cast-iron bathtub of Soviet manufacture (people were doing repairs in their apartment and installing a new bathtub, and decided to throw out the old one), I am that same psychopath who single-handedly lowered the cast-iron bathtub from the fifth floor down the stairs into the car ))) The bathtub was... Well, in general, it really weighed like a cast-iron one - 145 kilograms, and the main problem was to lower it carefully, without breaking either the bathtub itself or the tiles on the staircase of the entrance. I even had to tie some rags around its sharp corners.

Now I have this tub next to one of the greenhouses to collect rainwater. In the fall, I turn it over so that the water in it doesn't freeze and the tub doesn't crack. And in the spring, I turn it back over. When I get old and very weak, I'll probably throw some logs or empty plastic jars filled with sand into it in the fall. But you can't leave a tub with water over the winter - the ice will most likely ruin it.
 

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