Does a 1,000 gallon propane tank get special paint (any ideas on a pattern?)

[jameswaters]

Why do they need special paint? Just curious.... I can understand not using latex house paint, but I'd think any oil based paint (like Rustoleum) would work.

[ransley]

They dont, dont believe everything you read here. Rustoleum was the standard until epoxys and other high tech coatings came out, it probably used to have lead and was better but works today.

[tcrankwa]

Use a decent acrylic enamel. Don't paint over the rating plate - it has to be legible.

[Steve B]

At my cabin, the talented owner painted the hot water tank and propane tank with acrylics. It was mountain scenes, waterfalls, fish, squirrels. The tank was installed in 1986, the date she painted it on. We drain it every season, and it is still functioning. The outside propane tank gets buried in snow every year, and the pictures of squirrels, pine branches and pine cones are starting to fade. It was a very good paint job.

I imagine you could come up with some very nice things, maybe natural like that, or something out of the box funny.

Steve

[willshak]

Steve B wrote the following:

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I saw one painted like the Beatles' Yellow Submarine.

[Art Todesco]

Or, the Oscar Meyer Wiener Mobile!