I'm trying to build an air compressor out of an inherited air
compressor from
my grandfather. He just used an R22 tank, but that's not nearly
enough for
running air tools.
A bank of obsolete propane tanks? Tankage only helps on intermittent
air tools like an impact wrench. Just about everything else tool-like
needs serious continuous air, which has nothing to do with the tank
and everything to do with actual compressor capacity.
I'd never use a used water tank, you don't know how much internal
corrosion there is.
-- Jim