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anyone ever made a fuel cell?

SKAR -> anyone ever made a fuel cell? (5/11/2008 6:52:39 PM)
?anyone? would a steel frame out of like 1" angle iron work with sheet over top and a pickup and return tube welded on work as well as a filler tube? couldnt be that complicated thoughts?

Shelty -> RE: anyone ever made a fuel cell? (5/11/2008 8:05:22 PM)
It wouldnt be hard to make, but I doubt highly that such a thing would be illegal in some way... fuel cells have special baffles etc to keep the fuel from leaking out if you flip, and I think they need to be approved by a buttload of places before a company can cell one...

racin66coupe -> RE: anyone ever made a fuel cell? (5/11/2008 8:07:24 PM)
why not just buy one from summit that you KNOW will not fail? like, i see where youre coming from, but if your not a really good fabricator, id just be leary of makin one

SKAR -> RE: anyone ever made a fuel cell? (5/11/2008 8:08:02 PM)
lol, i completely forgot about baffles....... oh well i was mainly just thinking of what the drawbacks would be of making it out of steel, it will be in a street car, so its not like it would need to be approved by a sanctioing body of some sort,

SKAR -> RE: anyone ever made a fuel cell? (5/11/2008 8:09:46 PM)
well i couls make a steel box no problem, welding in the tubes would be tricky, maybe bronze welding them would be best and i mean TIGHT budget, and this would be almost free, just needs to be big enought to make it frm gas station to gas station

Boss_Hotrod -> RE: anyone ever made a fuel cell? (5/11/2008 8:13:57 PM)
Ive heard never bronze weld on a fuel tank.

SKAR -> RE: anyone ever made a fuel cell? (5/11/2008 8:15:44 PM)
gas will eat it damnit forgot about that too[:@] well then weld really cold......[:D]

tinman -> RE: anyone ever made a fuel cell? (5/12/2008 5:19:20 PM)
I've been using fuel cells for 20+ in race cars........ The only 'baffles' in them is the foam plastic stuff... I really doubt that anything you couls build at home would end up being any cheaper than you could buy one for...... I think that TIG welding and making it out of aluminum would be the way to build it.

SKAR -> RE: anyone ever made a fuel cell? (5/12/2008 5:32:00 PM)
well id mig it, i have angle iron and sheet at the shop so it would be free basically which is cheaper than buying one

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