Lew Hodgett wrote:
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


Ahh, I understand now.

I'm sure it would make a difference, but I'm not sure what "tank resin"
is called when you order it.
Do you have a brand name or more specific reference?

As for the leaky gas tanks, no.
They were either AeroPoxy or Dow 330.
At least the ones I made (and replaced with VE later).

Dunno about the ones that were brought in dripping...

BTW, I do have a gasoline tank on my boat.
3 entire gallons!
Filled it up back in June and still have about a half gallon left.

That for about 200 hours sailing this summer.

Now that my girlfriend has sorta figured out the "backwardness"
of the tiller we sail out and back in more often.

I think I see a bottle of Stabil in my future.

Richard