Whale tanker for slippery customer
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• Whale Tankers has designed a 7,300-litre vacuum tanker to carry potters' slip for Furlong Mills on a Leyland Daf 50 Series chassis. Height and width restrictions and tight turning circles had to be part of the design of the tanker which operates around the Stoke-on-Trent potteries.
Slip can be ruined by minute traces of contaminant so the tank and fittings are lined with epoxy resin. For the same reason all hose connections are galvanised and the outlet pipeline has been fitted with an oil separator to prevent oil seeping into the slip.
Potter's slip is used for decorating ceramic ware and is very slippery. Wide catwalks with handrails are fitted bath sides of the tanker body for this reason. Steps give access to the Front and rear catwalks . The slip is loaded through a wide manhole at the top and discharged through a PTO-driven exhauster/compressor.