Gentle Folks,

I need your collective wisdom on (1) how to “unstuck” a seriously rusted
valve, attached at the bottom of a capacity settling tank that I inherited
from my neighbor’s deceased father-in-law, whose operation was, evidently,
put to stop, after years of successful beekeeping, by mites about a decade
or so ago.

Fortunately, the tank itself is made of stainless steel; however, by the
time I rescued the abandoned settling tank from the ole hand’s backyard,
it was rotting in the element; he even had many antique, funny-looking,
unusable extractors there as well.  [I now wear the dead man’s bee suit
and veil for double protection, though!]  I tried WD-40 to dislodge and
unstuck the large, comma-shaped, old valve, but to no avail.     The tank,
whose radius measures about 26 ½” and its height 36”, also has a drainage
pipe at the bottom, as well.

This drainage pipe will be plugged up for now since I do not have any
pump.  (2) I also wonder if the dealers sell steel legs for me to put this
tank on: I know they do but am not sure on the size.  (3) Finally, I need
to replace the dead-gum plastic gear in my Hand Crank Radial 9/18 Maxan
Extractor.  Do I need to purchase the brass replacement from the dealer,
or can I just find it locally?  Don’t understand why they put plastic junk
in there in the first place.

Thanks for the help.


Yoon

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