Decided to finish the 20000-gallon water tank that was on the PC for a number of years. This took a lot more time than you would expect. The primary reason was that the original software that I had used was dropped by AutoDesk and I could not afford the upgrade to Inventor. There was a problem with the 40 Class kits and I had to address that in between the other major project that I have.
That was a long exercise as no one in Australia could do it and I finally found someone located in Russia and engaged him to salvage as much as he could. Finally decided on Albire Professional 3D Software or what I call Solidworks Light, getting a licence for a heavy discount for marketing reasons helped, still $650 a year but it works well and has excellent constraining for assemblies.
The files were finally rescued and sent back in SAT format and at least they could be loaded. The final issue was that it took me 3 plus months to even get my mind in the right place with the software
This is the backstory, but I missed the tank assembly had some parts but not the tank.
After a lot of work, a new tank was generated for the 20000 gallons and finished this is where someone showed a picture of a 10000 gallon and yes it looked better, back to the grind and this is the final result. It is not a museum piece just layout quality like the PC2 Station which can be handled and still have one part at the end of the day. It has no prototype just a collection of parts with the arrangement based on general structural knowledge and what is available.
Most of the major parts will be 3D printed with the frame Evergreen Styrene. The spout may be either plastic or brass castings depending on success with the latter.
The images are of the model, not a scale drawing so all sizes are of the materials used and the compromises made for the manufacture of one-offs.
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