Re: HA's 52 200 Grey Ghost
Posted by Hans Ahlness On 2014/3/10 0:34:45
And today the temp got up to 44F! Bikini weather. So while the rest of the populace of sunny Fargo was hitting the beaches (well OK, muddy sugar beet fields) I was able to open my hangar door and air out the place. Which meant that I should do a bunch of nice weather things, but also I took the opportunity to drop my gas tank since I had fresh air and wouldn't blow up the place with my propane heater.
What a surprise, the tank was full of really foul-smelling former gas (reminds me of my oil rig days) and a large amount of rusty sludge. Time to take the tank to someplace that can clean it up and seal it, the closest Renu outlet is in Minneapolis which is 250 miles away so I'm polling the troops on other good options. I have a strong recommendation for a place in Bismarck (only 200 miles away!) which is not bad because my wife has been driving over there every week to visit her dad who had a stroke and is in rehab. Well, that's bad but you get my drift on the location. But you'd think there would be a good place for this here in th big city, so we'll see what the car club guys say.
I washed out an ice cream bucket (gallon) of rusty sludge from the tank, there is more in there but might as well let the pros take care of that. And I'll be studying the blogs here for fuel sender options since my float was full of gas, which was OK since the thing is rusted solid anyway. I hope the estimate on fixing this tank is less than $500, since that's about the cost of a new one with shipping from Kanter.
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What a surprise, the tank was full of really foul-smelling former gas (reminds me of my oil rig days) and a large amount of rusty sludge. Time to take the tank to someplace that can clean it up and seal it, the closest Renu outlet is in Minneapolis which is 250 miles away so I'm polling the troops on other good options. I have a strong recommendation for a place in Bismarck (only 200 miles away!) which is not bad because my wife has been driving over there every week to visit her dad who had a stroke and is in rehab. Well, that's bad but you get my drift on the location. But you'd think there would be a good place for this here in th big city, so we'll see what the car club guys say.
I washed out an ice cream bucket (gallon) of rusty sludge from the tank, there is more in there but might as well let the pros take care of that. And I'll be studying the blogs here for fuel sender options since my float was full of gas, which was OK since the thing is rusted solid anyway. I hope the estimate on fixing this tank is less than $500, since that's about the cost of a new one with shipping from Kanter.
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