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Clean the inside of a tank with Caustic soda
Nurse Julie:
I posted an item on here from a Classic Bike mag about tank cleaning with Caustic Soda etc. Link attached again for anyone that's interested. :-*
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDMQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.realclassic.co.uk%2Ftechfiles%2Fpetrol_tank_cleaning_and_rust_removal.html&ei=tdlAVKqrHKKV7Aat3oDAAQ&usg=AFQjCNGGMi_nGGEIVjflu4uzqR39N7QniA
Trigger:
--- Quote from: Lobo on October 17, 2014, 09:34:45 AM ---Aye... great tip... the simple methods are often the best. Who dreams up these things - tumble driers with bearings, laying your bike on its side to drop the engine etc etc.
Alas no tumble drier in Brunei... bloody 32 degs all day / every day.. this method sounds far easier than electrolysis.
BUT, when we eventually return home I can see I'll have to lug a tank into Currys to 'help' Mrs Lobo choose said tumble drier with a cavernous opening; and a 750 SOHC block into John Lewis to select the oven, whilst ensuring of course, they have a special on a dishwasher which can swallow the gearbox + all internals.
Oh, we'll need a garden too... sufficient to lay my old Hondas dow
She'll be so excited...
--- End quote ---
Old tumble dryer Lobo. One with the heater not working. Love to see someone walking round John Lewis with a engine block, trying to fit it into a oven :) :) :)
Paull, I never line a tank with anything. If it has a small hole it can be fixed. Big hole in the bin.
Trigger:
That was the one Nurse. Mixed 100g to one litre . Must point out that the tank was well rusted up and had sat on the bike since 1983, that bad that i had to burn the fuel tap off.
Paull:
Hi Trigger,
I tend to build my own tanks, I do pressure test them but just for peace of mind, i line them.
I have had one leak i made and it made a right mess of the paint job.
PaulL
Lobo:
Seriously Trig.... I'd have guessed ball bearings would just roll around and not give the rust a particularly hard time versus a hand full of good old hex nuts, bolts etc. What size bearings you using?
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