Jimjordan2
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When you come up with an idea, you figure someone must have come up with this before, but here it is anyway.
Just finished cleaning out my gas tanks, and thought I would share. I used a sharp gravel inside the tanks and after about 20 minutes of turning and shaking etc. I thought that was way too much work, so set to figuring out how to rig up something to do the hardwork. Was at Home Depot, and saw a cement mixer, and thought it would be ideal to secure the tanks in there and just turn it on. But I wasn't going to buy a cement mixer just for that. Then my eye focused on my engine stand sitting in the corner, and since it rotates, I just strapped the tank on to the faceplate, rigged a handle to the rotating bar. Greased up the pivot point, and was able to turn the tank quite easily everytime I went into the shop. Don't know if this is the best way, but it was certainly a cheap and easy way to clean out the tanks. That gravel just scoured the tanks clean as can be.
Just finished cleaning out my gas tanks, and thought I would share. I used a sharp gravel inside the tanks and after about 20 minutes of turning and shaking etc. I thought that was way too much work, so set to figuring out how to rig up something to do the hardwork. Was at Home Depot, and saw a cement mixer, and thought it would be ideal to secure the tanks in there and just turn it on. But I wasn't going to buy a cement mixer just for that. Then my eye focused on my engine stand sitting in the corner, and since it rotates, I just strapped the tank on to the faceplate, rigged a handle to the rotating bar. Greased up the pivot point, and was able to turn the tank quite easily everytime I went into the shop. Don't know if this is the best way, but it was certainly a cheap and easy way to clean out the tanks. That gravel just scoured the tanks clean as can be.