Tank cleaning contraption
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Jeff Bennetts
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FalldownPhil
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Re: Tank cleaning contraption
Very Impressive !!
When you are up to your ass in alligators it is sometimes difficult
to remember that your objective was to drain the swamp !!
to remember that your objective was to drain the swamp !!
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Re: Tank cleaning contraption
That method sure beats the molasses method 
. Looks like a modestly easy thing to set up if you are always cleaning tanks 
. Now, where is the rest of the bike that belongs to that tank!!!!!-
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Re: Tank cleaning contraption
Jeff, I seem to recall you built something pretty slick yourself...
Nils Menten
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Jeff Bennetts
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Re: Tank cleaning contraption
Yes Nils, mine is a bit rudimentary compared to this one. Mine is hand powered but with a bit of imagination I could also churn butter with it.NobleHops wrote:Jeff, I seem to recall you built something pretty slick yourself...
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NobleHops
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Re: Tank cleaning contraption
Well THAT is darned useful!Jeff Bennetts wrote:Yes Nils, mine is a bit rudimentary compared to this one. Mine is hand powered but with a bit of imagination I could also churn butter with it.NobleHops wrote:Jeff, I seem to recall you built something pretty slick yourself...
Nils Menten
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Michael Vidovic
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Re: Tank cleaning contraption
How much fuel capacity was lost due to normal shrinkage with drier use?
...always walk out of the room smarter than you walked in...
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Jeff Bennetts
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Re: Tank cleaning contraption
Michael Vidovic wrote:How much fuel capacity was lost due to normal shrinkage with drier use?
Michael I hear it's around 20%, I have been trying to figure out a way to get my wife into our drier to test out the theory but the answer she gave me wasn't very useful.
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Michael Vidovic
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Re: Tank cleaning contraption
You live dangerously my friend!
...always walk out of the room smarter than you walked in...