What are the petrol tanks covered with, zinc or something?

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Sep 16, 09 2:20 pm

Whats the stuff thats on the petrol tank, (69 Fury) and filler pipe, it looks like zinc or lead or solder or something, you can scratch it with a screwdriver. If i knew what it was i would know if I could get it replated or coated or whatever it is.

Trying to save the petrol tank from my Fury since they seem hard to get. Seems to have been soldered in a few places before too! Needs soldering at the vent pipes.

Pulled the filler neck grommet out and phoned up my local Chrysler dealer with the part number and they're getting one in for me . (if only they could do that with the fuel tank or body panels

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Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Wed Sep 16, 09 3:47 pm

more likely to be zinc than lead

never heard of lead plating

doesn't mean it can't be done but its dense soft stuff so protection would be minimal its hard enough to get a good hard coating of plated copper so i'd guess the similarly unreactive lead to be hard work too

in the past you got consumer things made of lead (usually an alloy to change its soft bendy properties to stiffer harder tougher) (usually poisonous selenium or antimony or some other nasty) then plated in something else so you don't go doolally or die if you suck it.

these days you'd be hard pushed to find it in anything other then industrial electronics and building applications..oh yeah fishing guns and car batteries

remember working with me dad once and we had delivery of 20 tonnes of lead snoopy and woodstock money boxes. they were plated in shiny (chrome??) but the UK Health and saftey said no and the importer got scrap value for em
melted down cleaned up........ingotted

orribble job, full space suit and big gloves, blood test every month..paid well mind

yeah be odd for it to be lead

Dave

latil · Post by **latil** » Wed Sep 16, 09 3:53 pm

It may be tinned or bright zinc.

MrNorm · Post by **MrNorm** » Wed Sep 16, 09 4:12 pm

I believe they were tinned originally - as were the filler necks.

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Wed Sep 16, 09 5:00 pm

Zinc these days.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Sep 16, 09 5:28 pm

easy to figure out

specially on the filler neck as that if disconnected and removed from the car won't go BBBBOOOOOOMMMM

Zinc plating, if you heat it with a torch it kinda fizzles,burns sort of with a coloured flame, greenish blue IIRC, sounds a bit like bacon frying and gives off a fair amount of smoke. Whatever the smoke comes into contact with then feels smooth and silky, I guess as zinc is used as a lube additive this might be the reason

Solder/Tinning, will melt and run off at a fairly low temperatures

Seem to remember that most plating fizzles and burns not just zinc

Richard · Post by **Richard** » Wed Sep 16, 09 7:55 pm

always seemed like a thin lead coating, bet that's not legal today!