'bella,
Personally I would keep the $300 to spend on the fiberglass or the new diesel
engine.
I would drain the tank and burn the gas in my car, a few gallons at a time.
I would open the tank and stick two vacuum hoses in the access hatch with wet
rags stuffed around them. One hose to outside, the other to the discharge end
of a vacuum cleaner to ventilate the tank until all fumes are gone.
Then I would clean the tank with a can of carb cleaner and a roll of paper
towels.
I would rig a small fan to a vacuum cleaner hose to leave in the tank to
ventilate it while doing the fiberglass job.
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Lying Julington Creek
30 07.695N 081 38.484W
----- Original Message -----
From: bella
To: [email protected]
Sent: 2/8/2009 7:45:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Cleaning / gas tank..
Considering that stuff is invovled that has to be disposed of and that stuff
is not environmentally safe and that company deals with all that..
$300 is cheap in my book... I had expected that much to clean the tank out
before I open it up to reglass..
even if I were to luck out and find a suitable diesal for $1,000 that my current
budget can afford... I would still have to have some kind of cleaning done..
So cleaning is worth the price... I mean where the heck would either of us
disposed of the bad stuff and what would it cost? I think having a pro in the
field do it at that cost is a bargian..
who is it?
'b.
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Charles & Pat Culotta
<[email protected]> wrote:
I have a company that will come in and clean the tank for me with their fancy
process.. its not cheap.. but I would have had to have something done in any
case..
the tank has sat, with whatever is in it.. old gas... since at least 2004.
So there I am looking at around $300 to have that done..
Cleaning the tank is not that difficult. I have a detailed article on my web
site on how I did it.
Click on Repairs. Tank Cleaning 101
CCC
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