Dad's WD project

Looking good and the pictures are great, you're getting there

Set the fuel tank outside and set up the electrolysis to remove rust inside the tank
A view inside the tank.
After 24 hours there does not appear to be much rust collected on the anode yet but can see plenty of gas bubbles so it is doing something. May not be as bad as I thought. Gonna leave it cook another day and drain it. Will get it clean dry then plan to seal it.
Mike, I just might take you up on that cross slide

Here's the electrolysis setup on the gas tank

Not much on the anode. It's a steel pipe that had the galvanized coating ground off. Plenty of rust came out when I drained and rinsed it


Will be sealing this soon

Eureka!! Got one brake pin out tonight. Welded that pin top 3 times. Moved the pin in and out multiple times keeping the penetrating oil to it. Once I was able to rotate the pin it came quite easily.

Drum and lining don't look so good though but I kinda figured that

That'll need to come apart so's I can clean out the mouse house

Nice! Those pins sure can be a royal pain. I don't see any rivet heads above the lining in your pic, so someone must have changed the lining once before after the heads had dug in, then put that current lining on and it just wore into the grooves already in the drum?

plummerscarin wrote: So he replaced the drum at some point but probably held off on the lining due to budget restrictions. So I guess this is payback?

Just a thought, the crackling of the top coat appears to maybe have been lacquer as that was common then with just a scuffing for prep. Seen a similar story cleaning wheel centers.
Anyway, today have started the process of cleaning the fuel tank along with the tank from the narrow front. Turns out, after all the time spent using electrolysis may not have cleaned those tanks all that well. The narrow front tank did develop some pinholes though. They were flushed then and today I poured in the cleaning solution from the kit I bought, along with a chain and swirled it around for quite some time. I was stunned how much crap came out of them. Dad's tank not too bad it didn't stain the solution much but the narrow front tank turned the clear solution dark brown and clogged the screen in the funnel when draining out. It got washed 3 times before the magnet stopped coming out dirty. Thoroughly rinsed and dried. I have them sitting in the sun to ensure it is dry before the etching step. In all, I spent over 3 hours on this first step.

I went with a kit from KBS. I have POR-15 but using it for external. That said, when I coated the bottom of the narrow front tank it dripped right through the pinholes
Applied the etching primer this morning. Between sloshing the tanks and shocking sweet corn it has been a very busy morning. Tanks have been quadruple ri sed and drying now.

Edited by plummerscarin - 03 Sep 2023 at 2:19pm

Oops, I meant shucking. Damn auto correct. Freezing third planting sweet corn. So I looked up the POR 15 you mentioned. It appears to be the same stuff I'm using just a different brand.

Looks like you're on the right track.