Gas tanks curing in the sun

BARNEY’S JOURNAL

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ELECTRICAL (3)
  MISCELLANY (8)  
CHRONOLOGY (47)

Jan 01, 09       Too Cold
Nov 15, 08       New Speedometer to Bucket Gasket
Sep 03, 08       The Gas Tanks
Oct 25, 08       Chinese takeout
Jun 01, 08       The Gas Cap
May 20, 08       The Shock Absorber Tool
Feb 07, 08       Cleaning Barney
Jan 31, 08       Barney beheaded
Dec 30, 07       Bessie's Arrival
Dec 24, 07       Barney loves Bessie
Nov 14, 07       A new tool bag for your tool kit
Nov 10, 07       Items for Sale
Nov 05, 07       Top end gasket set
Oct 28, 07       Compression Test
Oct 14, 07       A Look at the Timing Chain Area
Oct 08, 07       Last Look Under the Clutch Outer Cover
Oct 02, 07       First Look Under the Clutch Outer Cover
Sep 01, 07       More items for sale
Aug 22, 07       Electrolysis test on an Allen wrench
Aug 22, 07       Acorn Nut and Cam tensioner
Aug 22, 07       Steering Stem Nut
Aug 21, 07       Let's do an oil change
Jul 14, 07       And exhaust valve tappet
Jul 13, 07       First look at the intake valve tappet
May 09, 07       Another cause of death.
May 03, 07       What is a brake pedal?
Apr 30, 07       New fork boots
Apr 26, 07       Selenium rectifier tests
Apr 23, 07       Main stand and pipe war is over. Or how to abuse a 12-point 16mm socket
Apr 22, 07       Main stand vs. main stand pipe
Apr 01, 07       Front wheel and fender cleanup
Mar 31, 07       Intake pipe gasketing
Mar 29, 07       Carburetor and petcock rebuild
Mar 27, 07       New tank panels
Mar 25, 07       Cleaning the handlebar
Mar 15, 07       New front inner tube
Mar 14, 07       Cable measuring
Mar 12, 07       Engine clean up day
Mar 11, 07       The great "de-barning" of Red
Mar 03, 07       Another diversion, how to take apart a speedometer
Feb 20, 07       A diversion into tool box mounting hardware
Feb 13, 07       Carb opened and a peek into the frame
Feb 12, 07       Fuel system removal and throttle system
Feb 10, 07       Electronics testing day
Feb 09, 07       Barney gets his papers
Feb 07, 07       First close ups of Barney the Red
Feb 06, 07       The New Arrival


September 03, 2008:  Introducing... Barney's tank, Blacky's tank and me!





The bottom of my black C200 tank




A shot of the inside of the C200 tank.




The inside of Barney's red S90 tank




Just me slowly turning Barney's tank after applying about a cup of RedKote.




Slowly turning. DO NOT DO THIS INDOORS. The RedKote odor is bad news.
It smells something like a strong Acetone?




I have my fan going on high in the garage, but I could have used a breeze today.




I just put a little duct tape over the petcock hole and cut the cotton wad end
off a QTip and stuck it in the crossover opening.




I also put some duct tape over the gas cap opening before turning upside down




The two tanks airing out on the porch with their own little fan




Finally a shot of Barney's new RedKote liner.

The odor is still there after 24 hours, but much less, so I presume it is still curing?






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