[Balloon-makers] Various questions on making a basket

[Paul Vincent Craven]

More questions:

* How have people framed their baskets?

A simple wood frame, I'm told, could allow the basket to sag and have sides
that are no longer square. One way to get around this would be to use
2024-T3 1" aluminum tubing, bent in a 'U' to help keep the sides square.

Head balloons uses thick nylon rod, with aluminum tubing up top:
http://home.att.net/~headballoons/baskframe.htm

* Sources for propane tanks?

I'd like two 15 gallon tanks. I'm used to flying with 30 gallons, and that
seems to work ok. Two tanks, perhaps a double burner with liquid pilot light
would be simple.

60lb tanks (13.7 gal) from Ray Murray (www.raymurry.com) are 43" high. I was
hoping for something shorter and squatter.
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