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Caswell is the Only one I've seen mention that it is unaffected by alcohol and methanol (other additive forgot) ...
IF there is alcohol or methanol (other additive(s)?) in the gas with red kote for example, it will turn the gas red ...the kreme will melt and strands will be in/throughout the carburetor (In any/every capillary sized crevice ) ...
I could not figure how some of the stuff got through the fuel filter in my current bike (and in the carb bowls etc.).
Oceana mentions rumor that Caswell could seal probably a "cardboard box" for fuel tank use.
IMO it's true because I used a cut paper orange juice carton for mixing and the left over resin was clear, hard and flexible some and would've held gasoline fine. Oceana Cycles has a service of coating for the owner but I don't know the cost or shipping.
ALSO, there's mention of about twice the drying time at room temperature (or with some heat) for use of alcohol/methanol , So I left my tank open on top of a cabinet indoors for about 8 days.
One problem with removing Kreme using acetone or MEK is that it softens the Kreme , but then it's still sticky goo and even using a shopping bag of pea gravel and leaving it in w/ a can of ,around $20, acetone and shaking each morning for a week all that happened was it was a major pain to get every piece of gravel out...ALL the way to rinsing with small amt. acetone there was one piece of gravel I finally got with some putty on end of coat hanger...
I Still have one or more small pebbles lodged in the tank's water vent tube which P's me off to think of...By the way, the Caswell is thick enough that it'd probably harden the vent tube in place (IF it's weld has broken loose) (In my case, rain could get through the broken weld on tube in the gas cap socket portion...).
Man, I wasted a cr@pload of time and money on multiple chemicals on my tank last year: several "$1 Works toilet cleaner", "Krudcutter Must For rust", Actually a decent product otherwise (about 7-$8 @ Lowe's), jug of acetone, Pea gravel (got free from walking path and cleaned with water/filtered) , had to clean carbs TWICE, Plus the chemicals killed some grass and burned nose and throat a lot. In the future I'll use Caswell before any other liner/ after maybe one attempt at rust removal.
Oh, since I didn't anticipate the thickness , viscosity of the mix, I'd roll the tank a lot more for longer than I did while it's setting...My wife was in a hurry for me to give her a ride to vote right when it had barely set, (it was very important to her), anyway, I left my tank upside down (since it had gotten rolled every direction, when got home there was about 3/8th inch of resin hardened in top and it added some weight !
(It should've gotten drained out and unused) No biggie just would do it different NEXT time!
Well good luck and hope you mask off the paint very well since the stuff is very durable (like 3000PSI or such)...
IF there is alcohol or methanol (other additive(s)?) in the gas with red kote for example, it will turn the gas red ...the kreme will melt and strands will be in/throughout the carburetor (In any/every capillary sized crevice ) ...
I could not figure how some of the stuff got through the fuel filter in my current bike (and in the carb bowls etc.).
Oceana mentions rumor that Caswell could seal probably a "cardboard box" for fuel tank use.
IMO it's true because I used a cut paper orange juice carton for mixing and the left over resin was clear, hard and flexible some and would've held gasoline fine. Oceana Cycles has a service of coating for the owner but I don't know the cost or shipping.
ALSO, there's mention of about twice the drying time at room temperature (or with some heat) for use of alcohol/methanol , So I left my tank open on top of a cabinet indoors for about 8 days.
One problem with removing Kreme using acetone or MEK is that it softens the Kreme , but then it's still sticky goo and even using a shopping bag of pea gravel and leaving it in w/ a can of ,around $20, acetone and shaking each morning for a week all that happened was it was a major pain to get every piece of gravel out...ALL the way to rinsing with small amt. acetone there was one piece of gravel I finally got with some putty on end of coat hanger...
I Still have one or more small pebbles lodged in the tank's water vent tube which P's me off to think of...By the way, the Caswell is thick enough that it'd probably harden the vent tube in place (IF it's weld has broken loose) (In my case, rain could get through the broken weld on tube in the gas cap socket portion...).
Man, I wasted a cr@pload of time and money on multiple chemicals on my tank last year: several "$1 Works toilet cleaner", "Krudcutter Must For rust", Actually a decent product otherwise (about 7-$8 @ Lowe's), jug of acetone, Pea gravel (got free from walking path and cleaned with water/filtered) , had to clean carbs TWICE, Plus the chemicals killed some grass and burned nose and throat a lot. In the future I'll use Caswell before any other liner/ after maybe one attempt at rust removal.
Oh, since I didn't anticipate the thickness , viscosity of the mix, I'd roll the tank a lot more for longer than I did while it's setting...My wife was in a hurry for me to give her a ride to vote right when it had barely set, (it was very important to her), anyway, I left my tank upside down (since it had gotten rolled every direction, when got home there was about 3/8th inch of resin hardened in top and it added some weight !
(It should've gotten drained out and unused) No biggie just would do it different NEXT time!
Well good luck and hope you mask off the paint very well since the stuff is very durable (like 3000PSI or such)...
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