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Purchasing a 55 gallon drum is relatively easy and can be done by visiting a salvage or recycling center. A finished drumset from a 55 gallon drum is a harder thing to come by but there are instructions on You Tube or one could purchase a finished set from classified local advertisements.
weigh the drum empty then full of water and the difference is what it will float. i think there's about 4 litres to a gallon so it should flaot about 200kg which is about 400 lbs (near enough)
A 55gal Drum of Toluene weighs around 400lbs.
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Gas is 6.3 lbs. per gallon. 55 gallons of gas will weigh 346.5 lbs. A steel drum will weigh 40 lbs. and a plastic 55 gallon drum will weigh 20 lbs.
Approximately 44 pounds. Closer estimates for steel drums are; 20 pounds for close top drums typically used for liquids and 23 pounds for open top used with a locking ring. Based upon actual containers that we use, a more realistic estimate would be from 32 to 36 pounds depending on open or closed type drum.
neglecting the weight of the steel drum and assuming a gallon weighs 8.2 pounds in Americian units, the calc would be 55 X 8.2 = 451 pounds. The extra weight of the steel drum would sink it from this nutral boyancy state. Also,55 gallon drums only hold 50 or so gallons.
an extension adapter must be installed to the drum fill adapter
Purchasing a 55 gallon drum is relatively easy and can be done by visiting a salvage or recycling center. A finished drumset from a 55 gallon drum is a harder thing to come by but there are instructions on You Tube or one could purchase a finished set from classified local advertisements.
The dimensions of a 210 liter steel drum is 890 mm high by 580 mm diameter. The weight empty is typically 16 kg.
weigh the drum empty then full of water and the difference is what it will float. i think there's about 4 litres to a gallon so it should flaot about 200kg which is about 400 lbs (near enough)
Ellie Mannette, a Trinidadian metalworker who was employed by the US Navy during World War II, was the first to make a musical instrument out of an empty 55-gallon oil drum.
A 55gal Drum of Toluene weighs around 400lbs.
The steel drum as it exists today was invented in Trinidad during World War II when Ellie Mannette stole an empty 55-gallon oil drum from the U.S. Navy yard where he worked, hammered the top into a hemispherical shape (which he called the pan) and created pitched areas in the pan.
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Fill the 5-gallon drum. Pour the contents into the 3-gallon drum, filling it. Now you have 2 gallons left in the big one.Empty the 3-gallon drum. Pour the 2 gallons into it. At this point there is room for one more gallon.Now refill the 5-gallon drum and pour off as much as it takes to fill up the small one. That means you are removing one gallon.Now you have exactly 4 gallons in the 5-gallon drum.or Fill the 3 gallon drum. Pour the contents into the 5 gallon drum. Refill the the 3 gallon drum and pour the contents into the 5 gallon drum until it is full. Empty the 5 gallon drum. You have 1 gallon left in the 3 gallon drum. Pour the remaining 1 gallon into the 5 gallon drum. Re-fill the 3-gallon drum and pour that into the 5 gallon drum giving you 4 gallons. or Tip the 5 gallon drum and fill it until water is level to both the bottom and spilling out the top; next do the same with the 3 gallon drum; then pour the half full 3 gallon drum into the half full 5 gallon drum, rusulting in 2.5 plus 1.5 equals 4 gallons! orWatch Die Hard 3 for the answer.