Can I Use A Glue Gun To Repair Gas Can

Venice Motor Bikes

How about model gum, or crazy glue???

Saddletramp1200

At that place is an piece of cake fix but yous got to work for it.

Take the tank off (tuckered of fuel) Brand a trip to a motorcycle place and get some items. I bottle Kream tank cote. Go a bottle of rubbing al k hol, the stronger the ameliorate. Don't drink any to test it rotfl

Pour the alcl. in the tank. Put the cap in information technology and play bartender for well-nigh two minutes. Shake the stuff out of it. I like to empty the stuff into a Make clean five gal bucket so I can see what condition the fuel is in.
You accept to take off the petcock valve! Pay shut attention for the next part.
A tree branch works well to cake off the fuel hole in the tank. Electrical, duct ect, Won't Work. Plug it good. accept the Kream and pour it into the tank, and
SLOWLY get-go to glaze the tank by sloshing information technology effectually. Plough it upside down. ect, let it set for I minute, no more and practise information technology once more. Cascade the contents out
and allow the tank set 24 hours after you take the gas cap off and unplug the fuel cock. Merely let it prepare. Exit information technology alone. The tank is at present just as skilful as or amend than it was new.

bamabikeguy · Jul 19, 2008

My bike shop guy is besides a Snapper Dealer, his mechanic said there was an epoxy used on plastic radiators at the Auto Parts places, so I promise this PRO SEAL Fast Set Epoxy was the ticket. (mislabeled on the price, should take been $5, put I paid $iii, handy double syringe dealio)

I roughed it up with the drimel, slathered it on nearly 3 minutes afterwards blending.

It will be nigh 24 hours before I ride to the county seat tomorrow, so I'll report back the results after it cures.

Information technology Works !!

It comes in a double syringe, says 4-half-dozen minutes....the get-go mix I went to the house to change to some vanquish upwardly apparel and when I got back it had already hardened. 2d batch I waited a bit also long every bit well...third mix was the charm, and like I said, slathered it (most of the patch is unseen, between the tank and the engine).

Long story short, Pro Seal Fast Fix Epoxy works on plastic, equally advertised.

Saddletramp1200

Man I'm happy for you. All I ever get is a mess. I've tryed 3M TO Zelda's sheep poop Westward/extra string rotfl

I hope it works. The stuff I accept used works for a while, But the vibration always wins. Never seen it hold more than a week. Your luck perchance ameliorate. Permit'due south promise so. After Tramp (c)

Easy Rider

I would endeavor a hot glue gun and come across if that works or empty the tank and re-melt the crack shut. I've tried JB weld and it peeled or broke off under the vibration.

Saddletramp1200

Won't piece of work. Gasoline loves glue.

Easy Rider

I thought the glue for a hot glue gun was plastic?

Saddletramp1200

It is plastic. A very mild plastic. Petrolium compounds like gasoline will desolve plastic like they apply in mucilage guns very quickly. Heres something y'all might do if your bored. Put a little of the gum on a chip of cardboard and let it dry, cool, completly. Then use your pollex nail and press into the mucilage. Although it appears hard it'south really non. Not difficult plenty to contain gas. Believe information technology or non from the moment gas is put into a metal gas tank information technology is actualy eating the metal the tank is fabricated of. It takes years to practise but given enough time information technology eats holes in tanks. The reason rust forms in gas tanks is not water per say but the corosion acquired by gas eating away at the metal. Inquire Mr. Larkin, he may exist able to explain it better than I. Later Tramp (c)

Easy Rider

Very interesting Tramp. Yous've taught me something new.
I know when nosotros first started using methanol on our karts, the methanol ate every gas line on our kart. So you do make a valid point about how gas can consume away at plastic. I for one have never had any sucess repairing a plastic tank. I always only bought a new.

Saddletramp1200

Not many people empathize just how powerful gas is. We use it everyday but few people know much virtually it. Take a plastic cup from a store fountain and add together a petty gas let it sit about 30 min and experience the cup. Do this exterior!
No kids,pets ect. The cup will nigh exist and then weak it ruptures. Pyros like milk jugs considering it eats through the plastic in about an hour. If your using exotic fuels your no amature. It will eat through fibergalss patches also. Don't know why. It won't eat fiberglass from the factory though