I had picked up a used drum and when I received it, it looked in pretty dubious shape, and looked like it was re glued
for what ever reason, the Expert drums are assembled with cylinder halves glued to each other and the cylinders
glued to the cylinder face ( as I'm calling it ).
I checked for leaks by filling one cylinder at a time with water up to the opening, fill it till you
get a convex meniscus bulge and letting it sit for at least an hour. Each cylinder gets the same treatment.
If the cylinders don't leak then check to see if the cylinder face is leaking where it's glued to the drum body,
same method except fill all the cylinders till the water is up to the edge of the tank with a convex meniscus,
of course all of this is done in a sink or tray large enough to hold all the water.
I wound up repairing the leak with 3M Hot Glue, I would guess any hot glue would work.
I did start a thread on getting the OEM adhesive used to assemble the tank -
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...um-leak-repair
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