The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-06-10
|0IL TANK
IS SET UP
First Reservoir for
the Liquid
Fuel
WILL BE PLACED
ON lWILEI REEF
More Than One Hundred Tons Of
Iron in the Storage
Container.

The bottom and the first ring of the
sides OF the reservoir which Will be
the first of the park OF storage tank
have been set up at the local manufac-
tory and the delivery of the plates upon
the site Will begin shortly. The work
OF construction will not be long delay
ed. as the Pacific oil Company will Sc
cure the services OF some OF the eH-
perlenced tank builders now in the Is
lands for the work.
The tank will be denominated as OF
5000 barrels capacity. but in reality
will hold something like $500 barrels
when completed. When all the iron and
wood work is in place the combined
weight will be In the neighborhood or
2l5. 900 pounds. The oil holder Will
stand something more than % feet
high and will measure 96ls feet in d.
ameter 1t will have as its companions
another of exactly the same dimen-
sIons and one something like so feet in
diameter and % feet high. the usual
form being departed from owing TO
the necessity OF utilizing a site which
VIII not give the larger diameter.
The first section of the tank now set
up Is a monster affair as the dimensions
/
Idea OF the magnitude of the cylinder.
The bottom is made OF A-inch iron
plates that weight being sufficient, as
when tested and let down into place
the bottom rests upon a solid concrete
foundation. There are in the bottom
l59 plates. OF an average weight OF 500
pounds each, which gives forty tons as
the weight Of that portion of the tank
alone. Around the edge. for the rivet-
ting OF bottom and side plates together.
runs an angle bar " hich adds several
hundredweight to the aggregate.
The first ring OF the tank is the heav-
lest iron which will enter into the con-
struction. Owing 10 the absence OF
any plates Of 7-l6-inch in the city II
had TO be made OF i.-inch iron, which
means that in each of the p plates
there is 1000 pounds OF iron, or an ad-
dItion OF Is tons 10 the bottom. making
with the angles and the rivets which
will have to be put into this section OF
the tank. something close to so tons
~ material which viii be represented
a. a his section OF the great reservoir
II There will be four more rings OF iron
| to be added TO this ground work. the
sizes decreasing as the height Increases
The next ring above the first, which Is
OF is-inch. will be %-inch in thickness
the next SIZE. the next u, and the tor
3-I6-inch. In these four rings and the
roof there viii be something above 81
tons more OF iron and wood. Accord
| Ing to the latest practice the roofs OF
the tanks are not made OF iron as In
| the former day, as the heavy oil does
not make so much gas and there is
not the same danger OF its diffusion
There are placed on the floor of the
| ha nil la re
which uphold the roof, as it is laid
Upon its beams.
| The building of the tanks upon theil
foundations will be one of the most pc
! culiar tasks which has been under
| taken here. The tank must be tested
as 70 it's floor and first ring, before II
Il put into place upon its concrete base
To accomplish this the iron must be
placed firmly upon an artificial bas'
and then riveted. There must of course
| be sufficient room for a man to work
beneath the bottom. not only in the
| riveting but also in the caulking anc
| TO see 10 the tightness of the bottom
/ and the angles once they have been pu
together. When this has been done th'
| task viii come OF letting down the tanl
| upon it's foundation. the entire mass Of
close To- So tons being handled so thai
there Is no straining. which would rem
der ineffective the work performed, FOL
there would follow some leaks without
/ fail. as the joints would not stand th'
| straining.
For the work there viii be employed
only expert tank builders. men who
have been fetched from the southern
/ oii fields OF California FOR the work
/ The three tanks viii he ready for cree
ton within the next two months. entire
| and the first one may be- ready for tbs
reception OF cargo OF the fuel within
i the same time.