Want to blow up your house? MEK shaken in a metal tank with rocks will do
the job for you! (My day job fire protection engineering. MEK is NASTY
stuff. It'll go off if you look at it cross-eyed! Makes gasoline look
tame!)
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris.S.Mottram(at)ecc.com <Chris.S.Mottram(at)ecc.com>
To: alpines(at)autox.team.net <alpines(at)autox.team.net>; tigers(at)autox.team.net
<tigers(at)autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 9:50 AM
Subject: Tales from the Gas Tank
>I have been suffering from the black paint flaking off the inside of my gas
>tanks. As a remedy, I got some Moss Gas tank Slushing Compound and went to
>work.
>Step 1 - Put rocks in tanks and shake until deaf
>Step 2 - Look inside to make sure that loose paint is removed (I got about
>50% of the paint off)
>Step 3 - Lather, Rinse, Repeat
>Step 4 - Tape off One hole in tank
>Step 5 - Dump in 1 quart of Slushing Compound, coat inside of tank
>Step 5 - Pour off all Excess compound leaving behind a very thin coating
>Step 6 - Let dry
>
>Interesting results from this:
>Left side tank worked nicely. Right side tank - The paint crinkled under
>the coating (ARGH!!!!) The slushing compound uses MEK as a solvent (Methyl
>Ethyl Ketone). I repeated the steps listed above, only this time the
>inside was infinitely more difficult to get to bare metal. Not much of the
>coated crinkled paint came loose. I sure hope that the crinkled stuff
>stays on as well under daily driving as it did when I beat it up with
>rocks.
>
>The moral of the story - Want to remove the paint from inside the gas tanks
>but nothing seems to work? Try MEK mixed in with the rocks. (Shaken not
>stirred)
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>Chris
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