I've been reading all sorts of posts here and elsewhere on sealing gas tanks. People have tried everything, and if you have been taught any chemistry at all some of the schemes will make you laugh out loud, particularly some of the tank cleaning methods that have been tried. Cleaning a tank really isn't a problem, it can be done chemically and inexpensively. The question really is how to seal it.
I was thinking about the best way to prevent further corrosion in an old tank and immediately remembered that some folks have had their's nickel plated. With no buffing required it is probably the best way to have one sealed, certainly the most effective. With that in mind it occurred to me that it might be possible to powder coat the interior of the tank; powder coat is great for coating blind and inaccessible spots, its impervious to nearly everything, its flexible, and its relatively inexpensive.
I've got to go see the powder coater sometime this week, I think I'll talk to him about it. It seems to me that it may be an effective and possibly inexpensive way to seal the interior of a tank, even one with small pin-holes in it. What do you think, would powder coat work as a good tank sealer? I've never heard of anyone so much as suggest it, let alone try it - which almost certainly means someone already has done it, so do any of you all have any first hand experience with PCing the interior of a tank?
