She ran to her desk to look at her purchase orders. Sure enough, Mr. Jacobs had told her to order 15 100-gallon propane tanks … and when she typed the order, she had inadvertently added a zero, making them 1000 gallon tanks!
How the propane tanks were made - I had a quantity of plastic protective caps from old Macbook laptop chargers. Pairs of caps were glued together using CA to form the tank body. Since my flatcar was underweight, a few BB shot were concealed inside each one prior to gluing. Tanks were stuck on some masking tape and spray painted flat white. The 5-packs of tanks were then hot-glued together.
The valve collar is a glass E-bead, size 6/0, from the craft dept. at Walmart.
The beads were glued in place (the middle bottom tank does not have one, it cannot be seen). The collar is then painted with red acrylic paint which also fills the hole in the bead.
The load is banded together with 1/8” black auto pinstripe tape, cut in half lengthwise to about 1/16”. This banding is cosmetic only, it does not really hold them together. The ends of the banding were secured on the underside with a drop of CA.
The 5-packs can just be set in place as needed, or glued to the flat if desired.
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