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Default Possible Ethanol Problems for Your Boat Looming

"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Fri, 1 May 2009 12:52:16 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

A poster in another forum has a 90 Runabout, and believes the Ethanol
Fuel ate a hole in his boats plastic gas tank. Tank wasn't loose, no
contact points, but had a hole. Glad mines galvanized.

You should be ****ed at the builder for not using the long standard
material, Terne plate, lead on steel.

Casady


I've heard of ethanol attacking the resin in fiberglass fuel tanks but not
plastic.
If it attacks plastic, there is going to be a lot of spare fuel containers
developing leaks.

Eisboch

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