i only have one day a week to get anything done if it doesnt get done sunday it dont get done the rest of the week im up and out at the crack of dawn and home long after dark so today this led me to the problem of drying out my gas tank completely and getting it back in my ot car and getting it running today being a chilly day i didnt see this happening till.... my wife said hook it up to the dryer hose i had this idea somewere in the back of my mind but never thought it would fly with the ol lady heres a few pics she even got me a stocking to keep the lint out
A "Springtime Fresh" gas tank.... Did you soak up the gas with Dryer sheets too? I don't know how good of an idea that really is,there was a thread earlier this year where the dryer started a fire in a garage. Don't want to freak you out,it can and does happen. Gas Fumes + spark from Gas or Electric dryer=Tragedy. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=345121&highlight=garage+fire+from+dryer
Sparks?...Oh balogna. The exhaust comes from the drum. Way to go, Mrs. wife, for thinkin' about your man. - Rick
P.S. - You didn't say this, but I'm assuming you weren't drying gas out of your tank. If you were, yes I could see potential danger if the room filled up with fumes. But I can't imagine you doing that...it would drive you out of the house. I have cleaned out tanks with hot water and dish-soap, and rinsed rinsed rinsed. Then I dry 'em out. I imagine you did something similar. I used the blower side of my shop-vac...outside.
its been soaking in muratic acid and i just rinsed the hell out of it at the car wash so the fumes are minimal what the pics dont show is the big garage door open about 8 feet away but thanks for the concerns
hey 52STYLE...i hope you didn't soak it long, or that acid will cut some nasty holes in the tank.good luck from a fellow texan in waxahachie...POP.
X2 Seemed like a good idea at the time. I was informed in no uncertain terms that it was most definitely NOT a good idea. Oh well, Better to have them mad than indifferent.
Had that idea in the back of your mind my ass! Man up and give credit were credit is do. Then turn your bathtub into a hot tank.
Oh, but you can! I have this vent that is open in the winter and closed in the summer. As to wet heat, it helps put back humidity that winter heating takes out.
A shop vac exhaust works quite well................warm, dry heat..............cures gas tank coatings quite well also!!!
I hope you have an electric dryer. You do not want to vent a gas dryer's exhaust into your home. It would also be smart to filter all that airborne dryer lint that makes it past the screen in the dryer.
It's an electric dryer, and it has a screen to catch the lint the lint trap doesn't. I rinse it out every so often. It also has a bypass flap if the screen gets blocked. I think it's a great way to take advantage of the heat you blow outside when using the dryer. I hate paying the heat bill! So far the fall I haven't turned on the furnace here in MN.
Yep.... mostly the passing of air helps, doesn't have to be warm. I thought the very same thing. Mine still gets past. I can see it on the vent outside the house.
its only wet and moist if your drying wet clothes no clothes in the drum =no moisture by the way a pantyhose filter kept all the lint out man this was great within 2 hours of pressure washing this thing out it was back in my car woulda took days with the weather were having
Speaking of gas tanks and drying them out, when my Dad had his fuel delivery business, ( fuel oil, gas, etc.) a lot of times my brother and I would get fuel tanks ready for new customers, and make some extra money. Painting the outside and of course cleaning out the inside as well. We used to take an old vacume cleaner and run it backwards to blow out any moisture afer cleaning for a few hours. One occasion we accidently didn't run the vacume backwards, a real nice blue flame came out for quite a while! Looked like a jet fighter taking off. Scared the crap out of me. Never went boom thank God. Michael
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