sfsuphysics
Supporting Member
I think I just was out in the sun too much today, but someone do some brain storming with me.
-I have a 300g rubbermade tub I'm going to use as a "greywater" storage (i.e. the super clean waste water that my RO unit kicks out), this will be used to water my garden at MY leisure rather than only when I make fresh RO/Di water...
-Now in order to more effectively have gravity push the water, I decided to raise it up on some concrete blocks, basically my yard is quite flat, so wanted to some positive elevation.
-To better distribute the weight I basically built a deck on these pads... and here comes the iffy part.
The deck does not extend all the way to the edge of container, and before I fill it up with water and wait for it to fail, I want to see if it will fail. Now I know if I take the extreme case of making the size of the deck down to a tiny area, yeah that will punch a hole right through the tank when it fills with water. But how much of an issue will it be if just the edges are hanging over?
I think it'll be ok, however, and this is where the too much time in the sun comes into play
, not quite sure of this. Not sure if the walls being supported will add to any of the strength of the bottom of the tank.
So basically it's a matter of keeping what I got, or flip the tank over and build a deck that's the size of the bottom (using it as a template) then I can basically have some cantilevered sections... but it requires more wood than I have
-I have a 300g rubbermade tub I'm going to use as a "greywater" storage (i.e. the super clean waste water that my RO unit kicks out), this will be used to water my garden at MY leisure rather than only when I make fresh RO/Di water...
-Now in order to more effectively have gravity push the water, I decided to raise it up on some concrete blocks, basically my yard is quite flat, so wanted to some positive elevation.
-To better distribute the weight I basically built a deck on these pads... and here comes the iffy part.
The deck does not extend all the way to the edge of container, and before I fill it up with water and wait for it to fail, I want to see if it will fail. Now I know if I take the extreme case of making the size of the deck down to a tiny area, yeah that will punch a hole right through the tank when it fills with water. But how much of an issue will it be if just the edges are hanging over?
I think it'll be ok, however, and this is where the too much time in the sun comes into play
, not quite sure of this. Not sure if the walls being supported will add to any of the strength of the bottom of the tank.So basically it's a matter of keeping what I got, or flip the tank over and build a deck that's the size of the bottom (using it as a template) then I can basically have some cantilevered sections... but it requires more wood than I have
