Satisfied, I drove into a hardware store, bought construction buckets and a 90-liter bucket for mixing masonry mortar. It turns out that what is sold in stores cannot be used in any way. On the very first day of laying the first row, the containers "floated"
See what happened to them, flip through the gallery:
Is it possible to produce such fragile products for construction, from cheap, low-quality plastic?
I didn’t find plastic markings on the broken bucket. Apparently the manufacturer understands that such material is not suitable for anything. Therefore, it hides this moment.
There is a way out, I found something to fulfill an almost eternal capacity
Naturally, the best capacity will be from 2-3 mm of metal, but where to get thick metal, for this business, but at current prices for metal products. We must also understand that such a bucket will be overwhelming. All the more so for one. Therefore, knowing the properties of good plastic, namely POLYETHYLENE, it is excellent to resist stress, even in frost. Began to look for barrels from it. And yes, I did.
The price, of course, is "interesting" for her, but for the sake of durability I decided to spend it. Immediately looked at what they are made of.
Due to its high strength-to-density ratio, HDPE is used in production of plastic bottles, corrosion-resistant pipelines, geomembranes and plastic lumber.
Wikipedia wikichi.ru
Great material for a building bucket, isn't it? It remains only to give shape to our homemade product.
To do this, cut out a pre-marked cover with a jigsaw.
Voila. We have got an eternal barrel, which is difficult to break, break even in frost. Scroll through the gallery:
In my experience, don't buy useless containers made of unknown plastic, but cut them out of a similar barrel.
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