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« Reply #15 on: March 23, 2013, 06:35:30 PM »
tell the truth alan ,the hair dryer's your init  Cheesy Cheesy

looks good made some difference,hows the other one coming along
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« Reply #16 on: March 23, 2013, 06:48:49 PM »
Only started the other one today and emptied this one, bugger of a job to get empty, got it sitting on top of the range to dry it out now.
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« Reply #17 on: March 24, 2013, 08:43:48 AM »
Frosts have this kit for non-plastic/fibreglass tanks.

http://www.frost.co.uk/por15-motorcycle-fuel-tank-repair-kit.html
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« Reply #18 on: March 24, 2013, 02:05:00 PM »
Amazing what you can learn here. Maybe I should've listened more to those school chemistry lessons.
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« Reply #19 on: March 31, 2013, 06:39:52 PM »
I am a cheap skate and poor so a tip if anyone is interested i used aquarium gravel the amount depends on size of the tank shake untill yours arms fall of empty tank,and repeat untill all the crap is removed i managed to remove 90% of 20 year old rust.
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« Reply #20 on: April 01, 2013, 05:16:45 AM »
Do that first then the electric job
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« Reply #21 on: April 01, 2013, 11:52:42 AM »
Is that with the fish in or out of the tank!! Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin
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« Reply #22 on: April 07, 2013, 07:50:13 AM »
Process started on tank 2 and this is after 2 days

http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s336/dr-big750/Bikes/250320131170_zps97fcce6e.jpg
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After a week of electrolysis this is what came out

http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s336/dr-big750/Bikes/030420131177_zps1fbbc1e4.jpg
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Good thing about soda crystals is that it can be deposed of down the same drain as the washing machine as they are not harmful

http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s336/dr-big750/Bikes/030420131178_zps6a1cdfb2.jpg
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Getting dirtier as it drains

http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s336/dr-big750/Bikes/030420131178_zps6a1cdfb2.jpg
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« Reply #23 on: April 07, 2013, 07:56:23 AM »
Tail end of the tank was pretty gungy

http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s336/dr-big750/Bikes/030420131179_zps90275877.jpg
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2nd fill of water

http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s336/dr-big750/Bikes/030420131180_zps07fa15a8.jpg
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http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s336/dr-big750/Bikes/030420131181_zpsf7e0a208.jpg
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3rd fill and most of the muck is out

http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s336/dr-big750/Bikes/030420131182_zps7fa059f0.jpg
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Just a few speckles of rust as you can see against the wall

http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s336/dr-big750/Bikes/030420131183_zps03afc3a1.jpg
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« Reply #24 on: April 07, 2013, 08:10:18 AM »
4th fill of water and shaken like a regular Harlem Shake dancer

http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s336/dr-big750/Bikes/030420131184_zpseb843249.jpg
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All water out and seems to be clean enough to do, ran a magnet around the inside to collect any loose lumps of rust, but nothing in there

http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s336/dr-big750/Bikes/030420131185_zps57086021.jpg
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Removed the remainder of the water with an oil drainer pump up sucker as it's impossible to shake out the last litre from these tanks, filled then with a gallon of diesel shook again and drained and then added a gallon of diesel to hopefully stop or slow the rust till I get then fitted.

The 8mm bar than I had used as an anode had eaten down to about 4mm in places, must be why they call it the sacrificial anode

http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s336/dr-big750/Bikes/030420131186_zps338896a7.jpg
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« Reply #25 on: April 07, 2013, 09:35:27 PM »
That's amazing!
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