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minus-squareFondots@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up28·2年前What exactly is involved in taking care of it? If it involves more than a couple trips through the automatic car wash a year I’d personally rather just forego the shiny bits altogether.
minus-squareblindbunny@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2年前You usually need to buff it because calcium builds up on it. If your in the states eighteen wheelers gas tanks are usually made of aluminum and they pay good money to get them polished.
minus-squareEvacuateSoul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2年前Or acid wash whitens them, but I don’t like that look, since it isn’t mirror finish.
minus-squareextremeboredom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2年前That’s very surprising to me, I’d always assumed tankers were stainless steel. Do they have to have a lining inside?
minus-squareblindbunny@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-22年前They would have to now days. I don’t t think they originally did. My understanding is the stainless steel ones rust quickly.
minus-squareShepherdPie@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2年前Stainless doesn’t really rust out as most of the iron is gone.
What exactly is involved in taking care of it?
If it involves more than a couple trips through the automatic car wash a year I’d personally rather just forego the shiny bits altogether.
You usually need to buff it because calcium builds up on it. If your in the states eighteen wheelers gas tanks are usually made of aluminum and they pay good money to get them polished.
Or acid wash whitens them, but I don’t like that look, since it isn’t mirror finish.
That’s very surprising to me, I’d always assumed tankers were stainless steel. Do they have to have a lining inside?
They would have to now days. I don’t t think they originally did. My understanding is the stainless steel ones rust quickly.
Stainless doesn’t really rust out as most of the iron is gone.