There’s a Suzuki DL650 that haven’t been started in six years. I’m slowly working to get it running again, and cleaning rust deposits out of the tank is the current goal. My hand is too big to fit in the hole so I made a thing.
There’s a Suzuki DL650 that haven’t been started in six years. I’m slowly working to get it running again, and cleaning rust deposits out of the tank is the current goal. My hand is too big to fit in the hole so I made a thing.
Can’t wait to see the tool you fashion to retrieve to tool you fashioned. Keep us updated op! Good luck.
Edit: I’ve had a ton of luck with CLR, hot water, and a decent amount of course kosher salt. Plug the holes and give it a shake.
There’s a ~7% acetic acid solution in the tank, enriched with a handful of screws and bolts. It eats through the rust as pacman eats the dots, you just have to help it get to where it’s needed. The Contraption helps accelerating process when I’m tired of violently shaking it.
You can use every Facebook mom trick in the book, the tank will just rust again in hours. You can seal it, but then the sealer will flake off sooner or later.
Shocked no one has suggested apple cider vinegar yet. I thought this was the internet.
Or just take it to the radiator shop and have it boiled out. Usually it’s not as rusty as you think, its varnish and junk. Then you can CLR the rest.
I do this with hot water, a drop of Dawn and ice-cream salt to clean inside my hummingbird feeder. The big salt crystals scrub the glass safely when you shake, and you can safely dump them in the kitchen sink because they’ll eventually dissolve.
Definitely didn’t learn this from cleaning a bong
Actually I had been creating wintry décor at work by nesting candles in a bed of ice cream salt in hurricanes, and the next day was using beans or rice to clean the feeder. (I’d got that off the Internet, although you’re probably right about someone cleaning a bong.) I got frustrated when I missed the strainer in the sink and had to fish them all out. You can’t just grind them down the disposal because they’ll swell up deep in the pipes and cause a clog. And there was that box of ice cream salt…
Salt + water + metal = more rust tho right?
No metal + oxygen = rust and sometimes that reaction is encouraged by a catalyst that remains in contact with both. You think they’re going to go to all that trouble and not going to rinse and dry the tank when they’re done?
I wonder if sand would do thr trick. Abrasive and easy to get out.
You’d have to discuss that with the guy I replied to. I’m just cleaning glass hummingbird feeders over here. I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t want to be pouring any gunk you washed out of your tank down the kitchen sink, either, no matter what you used to clean it.