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joe bloggs

08-16-2004 21:21:54




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i have a hole the size of a golf ball in my gas tank on my IH454. how can I fix it.its not rusted its from the rear lift hitting the tank.




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Red

08-19-2004 20:21:01




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 Re: welding gas tanks. in reply to joe bloggs, 08-16-2004 21:21:54  
Brother Vern thought he had a fool-proof method of cutting the end out of old furnace-fuel tanks so he could store scrap steel in them. I guess he filled them with water and cut the first two without any trouble so he thought but on the third, a loud bang went off, the end of the tank blew a 1/4 mi away and brother couldn't hear for a day and he had trouble getting the carbon smugges off his face that night. Experience is a great teacher sohe has not tried it again. Red

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El Toro

08-17-2004 17:53:37




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 Re: welding gas tanks. in reply to joe bloggs, 08-16-2004 21:21:54  
Hi Joe, The local radiator shop in our area repairs gas tanks too. They don't even steam clean them prior to welding. They blow an air
stream thru the tank while they're welding on the tank.

Where I worked they steam cleaned a gas tank for 8 hours and any welding had to be done
right away or resteam the tank for another hour prior to welding the following day. I was surprised when I was told they just blew air thru the tank. I didn't wait around for them to finish, I went back the next day. Good Luck, Hal

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john *.?-!.* cub owner

08-17-2004 07:43:21




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 Re: welding gas tanks. in reply to joe bloggs, 08-16-2004 21:21:54  
Take it to you rlocal radiator shop. Practically all of them do gas tanks also.



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Geoff NY

08-17-2004 06:31:27




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 Re: welding gas tanks. in reply to joe bloggs, 08-16-2004 21:21:54  
I have a 600, that had a couple of bullet holes in the tank. A friend of mine soldered them, using a penny as a filler. Worked out well, smooth and tight. Good luck Geoff NY



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gene b

08-17-2004 02:26:37




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 Re: welding gas tanks. in reply to joe bloggs, 08-16-2004 21:21:54  
fiberglass would do it.



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kfox

08-17-2004 07:18:22




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 Re: welding gas tanks. in reply to gene b, 08-17-2004 02:26:37  
When I was a kid, I used to hang around the local blacksmith, repair anything, chicken plucking shop. One day a guy brought in a new Mercury car with a hole in the gas tank and wanted to know if the owner could fix it. "Sure can, weld it right up" said the owner of the shop, so the guy left the car. It was about a 55/56 model. Clyde (the owner of the shop) took the gas tank off the Mercury and filled it with water. I was only 14 at the time, but I was getting nervous all ready. Clyde turned the tank upside down, and set down on one end of the tank with his torch and brazing rod, and I went to the far corner of the shop. He leaned over and stuck the torch over the hole in the tank, and there was a loud bang/whoosh noise, and water went all over the shop, and Clyde went up through the ceiling joist. Lucky he didn't go clear to the roof. He came down running, and ran almost a city block before he looked back. The gas tank looked like a beach ball, and water was dripping off everything in the shop. I was over in the corner laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. The only thing hurt was the gas tank, and Clyde had to buy a new one. Valuable lesson learned. Sorry this post is so long, but I still laugh when I think about it 50 years later. Ken

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joe bloggs

08-17-2004 13:59:37




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 Re: welding gas tanks. in reply to kfox, 08-17-2004 07:18:22  
thanks for the warning.



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captaink

08-17-2004 07:28:49




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 Re: welding gas tanks. in reply to kfox, 08-17-2004 07:18:22  
To coin a phrase I head a long time ago about pilots: There are old welders, there are bold welders, but there are no old bold welders. Fixing holes in gas tanks is best done with JB weld or other non-flame/spark methods. Fortunately the story that Kfox relates turned out good, I have heard of several others that tried to weld a gas tank that were hospitalized or are no longer able to warn us...

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