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Vincent fuel tank fibre glass cover?
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<blockquote data-quote="Cyborg" data-source="post: 113221" data-attributes="member: 3426"><p>I have been waffling back and forth about making a tank for the Mongrel Comet. My first choice is aluminium, but finding the learning curve may take me beyond the point where they take my license away and have me institutionalized. So... for now version 3.0 is a fibreglass tank. Ethanol free fuel is easily obtained locally, but just in case... the tank is constructed with a marine epoxy instead of the usual resin. The benefits being that it doesn’t stink (which helps maintain marital bliss) and isn’t frightfully expensive. While it is resistant to ethanol, there is some debate about the long term results. The blush from the epoxy was removed and the inside of the tank was sanded prior to assembly. Once cured, the tank was washed and rinsed out several times to remove any new blush that may have formed around the bottom seam. Now it gets a complete internal coating of phenol novolac epoxy just in case I do encounter some ethanol down the road. Using the phenol novolac epoxy for the last layer of fibreglass might have made more sense and I may explore that avenue if there is ever a next time. Anyway.. the point being that phenol novolac epoxy doesn’t require baking, although I did warm things slightly because the temperature in the garage was a little less than ideal.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]30544[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cyborg, post: 113221, member: 3426"] I have been waffling back and forth about making a tank for the Mongrel Comet. My first choice is aluminium, but finding the learning curve may take me beyond the point where they take my license away and have me institutionalized. So... for now version 3.0 is a fibreglass tank. Ethanol free fuel is easily obtained locally, but just in case... the tank is constructed with a marine epoxy instead of the usual resin. The benefits being that it doesn’t stink (which helps maintain marital bliss) and isn’t frightfully expensive. While it is resistant to ethanol, there is some debate about the long term results. The blush from the epoxy was removed and the inside of the tank was sanded prior to assembly. Once cured, the tank was washed and rinsed out several times to remove any new blush that may have formed around the bottom seam. Now it gets a complete internal coating of phenol novolac epoxy just in case I do encounter some ethanol down the road. Using the phenol novolac epoxy for the last layer of fibreglass might have made more sense and I may explore that avenue if there is ever a next time. Anyway.. the point being that phenol novolac epoxy doesn’t require baking, although I did warm things slightly because the temperature in the garage was a little less than ideal. [ATTACH type="full"]30544[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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