Gordon Wedman wrote:
Anyone had a plastic holding tank fabricated lately? I was quoted $1,200
for a tank that might hold 15 gallons.


Peggie Hall wrote:

Ye gods...who tried to hold you up for that price???

Ronco Plastics makes top quality thick walled rotomolded polyethylene
tanks for a very reasonable price and has more than 400 shapes and sizes,
over 100 of which are non-rectangular...and they install fittings in the
sizes and locations specified by the customer when they make the tank.

Ronco does NOT fabricate custom tanks, however...they don't make welded
tanks, only the rotomolded tanks for they have molds...and the cost of
making a mold for a one-off would be prohibitive. If they don't have a
mold that suits you, there are two companies who do make custom welded
tanks for a reasonable price:

http://www.seafabtanks.com/

http://www.triplemplastics.net/

They both use polypropylene instead of PE, which is fine for water or
waste holding.

When the told me over the phone " twelve hundred dollars" I said "one
thousand two hundred dollars???" I was certainly taken aback considering a
friend told me he had a tank made by them "a couple of years ago" for
something like $300. "Oh the cost of crude oil has gone up so much the
plastic is really expensive". Yea, especially if you are a gouger.

I can see why the roto molded tanks would be much more reasonable in price
but $1,200 is pretty rediculous for a custom tank.

I'll check out the two links you provided. Thanks for that and thanks to
other respondents.