Topic: tank restoration

[evinrude7]

tank on my bike doesn't have the honda lettering badge.  i assume the POs probably removed them and filled the bracket area with bondo.  looking for suggestions on getting back to the brackets?  should i have the thing glass blasted?  other media?  sand to a point and blast after?  eventually painting the tank. 

[ekpent]

 Good paint stripper will probably take it out if you go that route. Some guys burn it out. Lotsa different ways.

[pjlogue]

Carefully sand it down to expose what the filler is and go from there.  Most likely it's bondo.  Use a heat gun (make sure inside of tank is dry and aired out!) and heat and pick, heat and pick.  Nothing I know of will dissolve it after it cures.

-P.

[calj737]

Chemical stripper for the paint. Then glass bead blast the filler out wherever you find it.

[evinrude7]

thanks for the replies.  the inside of my tank is pretty damn clean. what can i do to keep it from rusting during the process?  some kind of fog?

[calj737]

Fog it is fine.

[evinrude7]

sorry to be a dope newbie but what kind?  what should i look for or avoid?

[T100]

Go buy some Marvel Mystery Oil and pour some of that in there and slosh it around. You can put that stuff anywhere and it'll be good.

[evinrude7]

thanks t100.  i have plenty of that stuff on the shelf.  use it at the end of an oil change cycle on my truck.