Topic: RE: Gas Tanks You Made Pic request

[chewbacca5000]

I am interested in making a gas and would really like to see some pictures of tanks that members here on the forum have made.  Fibreglass perfered, but metal is fine as well.  Did a quick search and only turned up a couple pics.  Want to use a CB750 tank as a plug and make a copy, also interested in fake tanks in fibreglass or plastic overlays that hide dents.  Kinda like a "hat" for your tank.

Let's see your pics!  Thanks!

[FrankenFrankenstuff]

I am about to do that with my frigging Dunstal glass tank. I caswell lined it and......dripping gas. I am thinking of just putting a little peanut tank and doing the "hat trick".

[lucky]

When you do a search do this:
Type in the words to a search engine like Google.
Then when you get the results(WEB) results then go up to the top of the page and click on IMAGES. There are web results ,image results,and video results as well.

You will see many, many photos.

[lucky]

I am about to do that with my frigging Dunstal glass tank. I caswell lined it and......dripping gas. I am thinking of just putting a little peanut tank and doing the "hat trick".

Does not sound like a liner problem, it sounds more like a large hole problem.

[Muckinfuss]

Ethanol in your gas will eat any fiberglass resin away unless you can locate the phenol ester resin somewhere.  One pinhole in your tank liner and you get a leak.  If you read the literature on the liners, almost everyone I've seen either avoids mentioning alcohol related performance, or merely says it's 'resistant'.  Yes, you will find by using Google, that there are any number of alcohol resistant epoxy resins available now...but resistant is not the same as alcohol proof.  The only advertised alcohol proof liner I've seen is from Caswell, and I have no experience with it, but they do say right up front that it's formulated with phenol resin based epoxy.

[KJ790]

Not a CB tank, but here is one I did for an XS650. The tank had some dents in it, but was clean on the inside and did not leak. I filled the dents, wrapped it in carbon fiber, then painted it (leaving some of the carbon fiber exposed). It didn't come out the best, and it was a pain in the butt to do, but it looks ok now.

[chewbacca5000]

I am about to do that with my frigging Dunstal glass tank. I caswell lined it and......dripping gas. I am thinking of just putting a little peanut tank and doing the "hat trick".

I'd love to see it when done.  Please, keep us updated on progress.

[kghost]

I just made mine......

[chewbacca5000]

kghost,

That looks great how did you do the welding?  Tig, Mig, Torch?

[kghost]

TIG

[neevo]

Here is my CB400F tank with knee cut outs, R1 fuel cap and stretched:

[chewbacca5000]

neevo,

Great work on the tank!  Did you also Tig weld the tank.

[Lostboy Steve]

I assume you got those straight cuts on a band saw? Can we see a pic of the underside?

[PeWe]

WOW!! neevo you are a real pro working with stuff like this, right?

[neevo]

WOW!! neevo you are a real pro working with stuff like this, right?

Eeeeeeeeeerm... no!

This is my first bike I'm building up. All done with an angle grinder, some sheet steel, a little DC TIG welder (that I bought for this project) and a tonne of patience.

The tank sections were cut with a 1mm cutting disc on the grinder and then bent over a drill bit shoved into my work bench:



Underneath is a little messy but works as I tested it with approx 15 PSI: