Getting a fuel tank sandblasted, good or bad idea?

[Wonko The Sane]

Need to get a tank stripped back to bare metal, is sandblasting it a good or bad idea?

only issue I can think of is possibility of getting grit into the tank and thus into the fuel.
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[Kyle.]

Have you considered aquablasting?
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[P.addy]

Wouldn't matter. The recovery people should be paying so let them do whatever until it's fine again.

[tom_e]

Surely you won't be doing this one the bike so as long as it's properly cleaned afterwards it's going to be fine.

[Hong Kong Phooey]

Surely your bike has an inline fuel filter. Unless it's got the fuel pump in tank I'd not be concerned. However I'd be blasting with it sealed.
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[stinkwheel]

I'd be doing it with a chemical paint stripper like paramose.

In fact, that's exactly how I have done it in the past.
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[Suntan Sid]

Drill and wire wheel:-

https://myfiero.com/uploads/10741_.jpg

That's how I did mine, no problems at all, shove an old rag in the filler hole!
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[sickpup]

[Teflon-Mike]

[GrumpyGuts]

[Hong Kong Phooey]

[Kickstart]

Hi

I needed to strip the paint from a tank earlier this year. It had been painted already, on top of the existing original paint

I bought some of this stuff which did the job, but took a while and several attempts. Put on, leave for a bit, scrape off. Initially with a scraper that used a Stanley knife blade, switching over to a scouring pad.

Half way through it looked like this (you can see the USAF logo from the original paint job).

https://www.alfa-pages.co.uk/TempPicture/RB50_logo.jpg

Once stripped it looked like this:-

https://www.alfa-pages.co.uk/TempPicture/TankStripped.jpg

All the best

Katy
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[BTTD]

[sickpup]

[RhynoCZ]

[Pete.]

I drained my BMW tank, wiped out the dregs, sloshed it round with a cup full of brake cleaner and tipped that out, wiped it, warmed it up with a hot air gun held distant for 10 minutes, welded it and had it back on the bike full of fuel well inside of 2 hrs. The brake cleaner mixes with the fuel dregs and it evaporates very quickly indeed especially when warmed. Luckily the bmw tank has a 8" opening in it where the pump plate bolts on.

When I let them air out I just leave them in the sun for a couple of days but that doesn't work this time of year.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Wonko The Sane]

thanks for the suggestions guys, but I'm not doing the work myself, I simply don't have time or anywhere to do it.

Most suggestions would affect the garden where my 3year old plays and possibly damage our artificial grass (concrete yard when I moved in, chose not to try and remove it as it's likely grass wouldn't grow well wedged between terraced houses)
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