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    Does anyone know of the least expensive place to buy/order gas tank
    sealer? One of my water trailers is incontinent and to seal it to just
    above the frame rails (which is where the majority of the leaks are in
    an unweldable spot) will require a fair amount. This is to be the hot
    water (now that I have a gasoline imersion heater for it) trailer for
    showers.
    
    Steve

    
         KREME....Thats the stuff. Its available at nearly every motorcycle
    shop. Problem is, How are you going to slosh it around? Turn the tank
    upside-down and what not?  Kreme is the ultimate sealer because it
    becomes chemically inert once hardened and is even suitable for
    drinking water. I just can't figure how you would do it.
    
    -john

    Thanks for the reply
    
    The plan (to be tested with water 1st to see if I can actually do it
    this way) is to connect lunette on the water buffalo to pintle hitch on
    deuce (it rotates 360 degrees). Take bomb truck (looks like wrecker)
    and use it to lift the back end via chains to the spring shackels.
    Remove the wheels to make it easer to rock back and forth and use the
    bomb truck winch to raise and lower the back end to get front to back
    coverage.
    
    Cross sectional view
    
              |
              |         inside of tank
              \
               \ 
    tank      --\
    welded    |  \  area that leaks
    to frame  |   \
              -----\
                    \
                     \----------
    
    
    
    
    Steve 

  Be careful of the gas tank sealer from the m/c shops.  Some of them
  require the metal in the tank to be completely clean of rust, total bare
  metal.  I'm not sure if the stuff John mentioned is like that or not.
  
  I have used the sealer from Bill Hirsch in NJ (look in Hemmings.)  It's
  about $20/qt which is enough for around 2 20 gallon tanks.  You don't
  have to get all the rust out, just the big flakes.  I've used this on the
  gas tanks for the '24 Stude, '71 VW and '58 Isetta.
  
  Dave

    This tank definately has scale in it. I was planning on tourching out
    the baffle so that I could pressure wash the inside or alternatively
    put some Black Beauty and some water in it and go 4 wheeling with it.
    That did wonders with the Alu one...
    
    Steve

Slosh the tank first with an etching solution then slosh it with the sealer
.

Go to your local airport and befriend one of the mechanics.

My kid brother (the FAA inspector) got me a load of it in '75 to do that 53 
gallon tank in my '34.  It came from Barnes airport in Wastefield.

    I've found a very good sloshing compound at Brittish Auto in Manchester
    at the rotary near Lake Massebesic.  I think it was $12 a quart.  It's
    a good deal for a good product.   I believe that these Brittish Auto
    places are a fanchise so they're might be one closer to where you are.
    
    Dick

    I live in Raymond. Massabesic circle is on the way home. 
    
    
    Thanks
    Steve