Yeah I suppose the more I look at it, so at least you got a spare if you ever need it now. I still love your little Massey by the way, I gotta get me one a those.It looks exactly the same to me.
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It is the same as the one on my MF7 too.
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My dad owns the shop. Yes, we have a sandblaster at work. It’s just a Harbor Freight blast cabinet, nothing special. I’m using acrylic enamel on everything. That should be somewhat fuel resistant once it’s cured. I’ll just have to be careful filling it, and wipe up any spills immediately. I will probably put one of the other tanks on there and leave this one cure for month or two before I put it on and put gas in it just to be safe.Nice Nick.
You have access to a sandblaster at work I assume ?
Anything different with the paint on the gas tank. The reason I say is some paints don't like to get like gas spilled on them to much...and it will happen sooner or later.
Also you guys own the body shop or just work there ?
Thanks Doug! Yes, they do have the baffle like that. The one tank is not bad, just some light surface rust, probably not enough to even worry about yet. The other one, from what I remember, was worse than your tank. That was actually the one I originally bought for this tractor, then I got the other two with some parts tractors I bought. I was soaking it with Evaporust, then I was going to put some gravel in it, shake it up good, rinse it out and coat the inside of it with tank sealer. Of course, like you said, you don’t know what’s on the other side of the baffle, and there’s not much you can do about it.Nice work, Nick. That's going to be a show worthy tractor! If those rusty inside gas tanks are like some steel ones I have it is just about impossible to clean them due to a baffle the manufacturer put in for some stupid reason. Had to scrap a tank from my JD110 as that baffle made it impossible to clean on the other side of it, and can't see past it to know the conditon.
That bottom area in this pic is the baffle. There is still a big part of the tank on the other side of it with the fuel line fitting on it. Looks like that little tab is the fuel flow between the halves. It had a couple of rust pinholes too.
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