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Lew Hodgett Lew Hodgett is offline
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Default Plywood fuel tanks

cavelamb himself wrote:


Awright Lew,

Maybe marine gas is different from mogas these days?

I've had sevearl aircraft tanks built with epoxy fail.
But never a failure with Vinyl Ester.

Auto fuels these days have more solvents than gasoline.
And those solvents will leach through epoxy and polyester.

YMMV, but I'll stick with ve.


SFWIW, I don't get on boats with gasoline propulsion, so my perspective
is probably skewed.

Since this is a 40 ft boat, doubt it has gasoline propulsion, so never
gave a gasoline tank a consideration; however, were your epoxy tanks
that failed properly coated with tank resin?

It makes a major difference.

Lew