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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Gaynor" data-source="post: 18728" data-attributes="member: 4034"><p>Mercifully, I don't need a new tank. I simply sealed my leaking old one with POR15, which I bought from Eastman. Or is it Eastwood? That was 5 or 6 years ago. I didn't bother with the recommended cleaning products (Marine Clean and something else). The results are wholly positive: it doesn't leak, and looks inside as though it has been galvanised. I think the finish may actually be zinc phosphate. UK fuel (I use cooking unleaded, 95 octane RON) is just like US fuel, has 10% of farm subsidy fluid added, i.e. contains just as much ethanol.</p><p>(If bikes on methanol - the same stuff - consume 4 or 5 times more fuel per mile as bikes on petrol do, please tell me how adding ethanol makes it "bio-fuel". I can see how using more fuel will increase tax revenues, but don't see how running bikes on vodka saves the planet. BIO-fuel? </p><p>On the other hand, I have a racer tank sealed, after a crash, with Petseal, which is resin based. I have had no trouble with this for 8 or 9 years, but always used Avgas. Avgas isn't screwed about by oil companies, since fuel troubles in an aircraft are not good news. There is no roadside parking in the sky. This year I lent the bike to someone who ignored my instructions, and used premium unleaded, and an octane booster, for ONE weekend. The Petseal began to dissolve...</p><p>Moral: sealers exist that can cope with ethanol-diluted petrol. Better, I think to buy a tank the right shape, and seal it, than one that doesn't need sealing, but doesn't fit. And a tank that fits could always be welded...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Gaynor, post: 18728, member: 4034"] Mercifully, I don't need a new tank. I simply sealed my leaking old one with POR15, which I bought from Eastman. Or is it Eastwood? That was 5 or 6 years ago. I didn't bother with the recommended cleaning products (Marine Clean and something else). The results are wholly positive: it doesn't leak, and looks inside as though it has been galvanised. I think the finish may actually be zinc phosphate. UK fuel (I use cooking unleaded, 95 octane RON) is just like US fuel, has 10% of farm subsidy fluid added, i.e. contains just as much ethanol. (If bikes on methanol - the same stuff - consume 4 or 5 times more fuel per mile as bikes on petrol do, please tell me how adding ethanol makes it "bio-fuel". I can see how using more fuel will increase tax revenues, but don't see how running bikes on vodka saves the planet. BIO-fuel? On the other hand, I have a racer tank sealed, after a crash, with Petseal, which is resin based. I have had no trouble with this for 8 or 9 years, but always used Avgas. Avgas isn't screwed about by oil companies, since fuel troubles in an aircraft are not good news. There is no roadside parking in the sky. This year I lent the bike to someone who ignored my instructions, and used premium unleaded, and an octane booster, for ONE weekend. The Petseal began to dissolve... Moral: sealers exist that can cope with ethanol-diluted petrol. Better, I think to buy a tank the right shape, and seal it, than one that doesn't need sealing, but doesn't fit. And a tank that fits could always be welded... [/QUOTE]
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