Acetone and plastic fuel tanks?

Post by **jonguthrie** » July 11th, 2002, 9:58 am

Has any one tried cleaning contaminated plastic fuel tanks with acetone. I was sure I read about someone doing this on one of the forums but all searches have failed to find it. Maybe I dreamed it. The acetone label has A warning about plastics.
Thanx in advance.
Jon

Post by **Cranfield** » July 11th, 2002, 1:06 pm

Acetone will "melt" plastic.
How quickly and how badly , will depend on the strength of the Acetone and the quality of the plastic.

I have known people use a very diluted Acetone to clean out plastic containers, but after a while the containers start to leak from the closure fittings.

Not recommended.

Post by **wevans** » July 11th, 2002, 1:46 pm

What type of contamination does it have?

Post by **jonguthrie** » July 11th, 2002, 3:34 pm

It is varnish and what ever caused by premix setting in A tank for over A year.