[Public-list] Happy new owner

[Rachel]

Dan,

Geez, I'm sorry to hear about your boat fire - how awful.

I'm not sure about all metals, but I know that stainless steel is 
currently an approved metal for gasoline tanks (if the fittings are on 
top), just by-the-by.   I'm not fond of the idea of plastic because 
from what I can tell they are normally not baffled, and I tend to think 
that plastic can "work" from the motion, no matter how much you 
stabilize it.  But I guess the first thing is to determine if my tank 
is the problem, or if it is something else.

I'm completely willing to accept that my tank leaks, if it does, and 
tear it out.  But I'm a bit frightened to think that it could leak 
without it being detectable -- how can you then trust *any* tank? How 
can you test it? Do you know that your tank caused the fire as opposed 
to something else?  I'm very interested to get this figured out, so I'm 
all ears.  I'm certainly not trying to save money on any part of the 
fuel system, thereby short-changing safety.

--- Rachel


On Jan 26, 2007, at 4:43 PM, dan walker wrote:

> mine looke fine. the paint is shiny where you can see it. again i 
> think it was jock talked about the water at the bottom of the tank. i 
> never saw any leak, felt underneath the tank. seemed dry. then there 
> was the day my boat made the television and print news for the fire.
>   i was told by my surveyor metal tanks are no longer coast guard 
> approved, and he is the one who stated they will eventually leak. he 
> was obviously correct in my case. your call, but i could have saved 
> myself a lot of aggravation if i had taken mine out when he told me.  
> new tanks aren't "that" expensive


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