Thanks for the recommendation RC-Sport.

I've been thinking over what you suggested and wonder if it would still be a nightmare to put the tank back in because of the rubberbands. It seems you'd have to set one side of the rubberbands and then feed them over the top of the tank and latch them onto the other side while working from underneath the tank floor.......you'd have to have plummer hands to do that and a lot of hemostats and other strange tools....kidding.

I was hoping, and praying for an easier way to deal with the problem for us fat fingered folks.