vinegar

I read somewhere that filling a gas tank with vinegar and letting it sit
for some days would clean surface rust. Also that putting some amount
of washing soda (not baking soda) would help.

Has anybody tried this?

p

 

Yes.

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Use 5% acid white vinegar. It costs a little more, but the cheaper stuff
will flash rust very quick.

I'd remove the petcock, it could eat it up like it did the locking gas
cap in my pics. That was a nice bonus for me, saved drilling the lock out.

You'll need to have the tank coated to prevent more rust.

Les

 

Oh, you total fuckwit.

 

Quite. It's well-known that sugar can't get into the engine in
the first place -- it gets left behind clogging up the carburettor as the
petrol evaporates into the venturi. Doesn't anybody read Enid Blyton these
days?

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And they make sugar-free Coke anyway.

 

With enough hot water and dish soap, I think I could satisfy myself that
I'd got rid of any hard-dried-up cola syrup, maybe I'll try the cola the
next time I see eight litres of the stuff on sale, seems safer and
easier to dispose of. At the risk of adding flames, I'd like to ask
what do people here think of using a battery charger, old railway tie or
somesuch, cadboard box with garbage bag and electrolysis to reverse some
or all of the inner tank rust - is it impractical to think that it will
get the inside surface rust out?

(the tank I want to clean is an internal one, from a Helix, so I don't
care about removing the outside finish.)

p

 

Do it. Loads of folk on ukrm have done it, and no worries. Albrecht
seems to think people won't actually rinse the tank after doing it, or
use sugar-free Coke anyway.....

 

Although I've neglected a few new two-wheelers, for some twisted reason,
I can't bring myself to put anything into an old one that I wouldn't put
in my own stomach.

p

 

paul c wrote:
.... old railway tie or ...

Oops, sorry, I meant old railway spike or somesuch.

p

 

when it comes to vinegar, there are several varieties i enjoy. i like
it so much that it would be easy to accumulate a lot of my left-over to
put in a gas tank. where i come from, pig shit is a touchy subject, but
vinegar has nothing to do with pigs. anyway, i agree, it was a fair point.

p

 

It's not BS. You don't have a problem. Trust me, there really, really is
nothing wrong with using Coke (diet, if you prefer) to remove corrosion.
I know lots of people who doi it, and I've done it myself, albeit in
fasteners.

No. Albrecht's a fuckwit bigot whose knowledge is good on some things
and *appalling* on others. You're you're starting to irritate me by
being as blinkered.

Kreem or similar is a good sealant. It'd designed to plug leaky tanks.
It's not a corrosion remover, you idiot.

 

Except that Kreem comes with a corrosion remover of course. Ho hum.
Apologies. What I meant is that there's no need to seal the tank if it
isn't leaking.....