[giftedk]

HI all,   Ive purchased a 1000 litre valet tank to carryu the purified water in. This morning (first time) i filled it a third of the way as payload on van is only 1 ton and the force of the water was rocking me back and forth.  This made me feel very unsafe about driving like this, how do you all carry your water and is there a better method.

[squeaky-clean 1]

if you are carrying 100ltr im sure you have to use baffled tank or you could turn your van over on the corners?

Belinda

[giftedk]

cheers belinda does take much to baffle me .!

[Andrew McCann]

I carry my water in 25 ltr containers  ( But then I would wouldn't I ) 

Best thing to do is always to ask here before buying something like a tank. THat one you have is only usefull as a static one unless you baffle it out. Someone here.. and I can't remember who has a good way of doing it using something like guttering downpipe.



Cheers


Andrew

[Moderator David@stives]

Which waY SHOULD THE BAFFLES RUN SIDE TO SIDE OR FRONT TO BACK

dAVE

[Chris Cottrell]

Doh

Top to bottom

[Moderator David@stives]

well i knew that

[Chris Cottrell]

Well thats allright then

[Moderator David@stives]

my tank as got 2 upright baffles the question is do these baffles have to face forwards or to the sides

[Morph]

I kNeW tHaT tOO

pJ

[Morph]

yeS hTatS riGhT DavID

[Solo Cleaning]

my tank as got 2 upright baffles the question is do these baffles have to face forwards or to the sides

Hi David

For the baffles to work they should run perpendicular to the direction of travel.
Hence car goes forward bafles go from one side of van to tuther
Does that make sense

[Moderator David@stives]

Yes it does make sense i thought it was more important to baffle the side to side movement

Dave

[Morph]

Looks like I got that wrong too!

Time for another drink!

[dai]

If you use cut down drain pipe as baffles, they should run top to bottom. When you look down the filler hole it would look like a honey comb. This would baffle any movement of water in any direction. DAI

[Philip Hanson]

You need to baffle in both directions.

Baffling side to side will stop the water surging when braking or accelerating, but will do no good for cornering.  Likewise, baffling front to back will help with cornering, but not braking.

Both effects are just as dangerous and will lead to instability or vastly increased stopping distances.  This can constitute an unsafely loaded vehicle, and if the cops see your van swaying around the road they will certainly pull you over.  Worst case scenario is a £5,000 fine.

As Dai said, use lengths of downpipe sawn and jammed into the tank vertically.  You should pack in lengths of pipe until there is no room for any more.  This will effectively baffle in all directions and will prevent surging very well.

Note: a pre-pump filter is very important as there will undoubtedly be swarf in the tank from the baffles, and this will clog the pump.

-Philip

[Grafters Cleaning Services]

I carry my water in 25 ltr containers  ( But then I would wouldn't I ) 

Best thing to do is always to ask here before buying something like a tank. THat one you have is only usefull as a static one unless you baffle it out. Someone here.. and I can't remember who has a good way of doing it using something like guttering downpipe.



Cheers


Andrew

hi andrew
just clocked your trolley,
have you got a larger pic of it
and where did you get it from?

[busydaffodil]

Me thinks it is   http://www.freedomwfp.co.uk/trolley.html

But I could be wrong!     Just trying to be helpful.  I dont even know the guy!

[Grafters Cleaning Services]

Me thinks it is   http://www.freedomwfp.co.uk/trolley.html

But I could be wrong!     Just trying to be helpful.  I dont even know the guy!

thanx

[busydaffodil]

WELCOME