Reman
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Hi all. I haven't been around for a fair while. My health took a pretty significant nose dive, and I've spent several months feeling ill as hell, and wallowing in a hole of self pity........ So I decided a little light project might help me snap out of it, and I bought an old and abused Aladdin Blue Flame paraffin heater. I'm now part way through restoring it.
Most of the bits have been in Deox C for a while, and they're about 99% rust free, but under the heading of "Belt and braces" I was thinking about treating some parts with Hydrate 80. After doing a bit of research online I still couldn't work out if whatever it turned the rust into would have problems with the heat or paraffin (If the stuff turned out to be fine with the fuel, I was even thinking it could be worth swilling some around inside the tank to catch any remaining rust blobs in the seams, and coat all the now bare, but probably flash rusted metal), so I emailed Bilt Hamber and asked about the stuffs fuel resistance and maximum working temperature when dry. Their response pretty much just said "It's not suitable. Buy our fuel tank conditioner (Gas-Mac) instead".
OK, I trust the companies products, but I've never interacted with anyone there before. That reply didn't really tell me anything particularly useful, and for all I know it could just be them trying to make more sales (Gas-Mac isn't a coating, it's a rust inhibiting additive, so it would be an ongoing additional cost/step in using this heater..... Yeah, I'm fixing it up to use, in case we DO get these rolling power cuts the government's been hinting at !).
So does anyone actually know what Hydrate 80 converts rust into? Also, what kind of temperatures could whatever it turns rust into take once it had finished reacting?
Thanks in advance for any info.
Scott.
Most of the bits have been in Deox C for a while, and they're about 99% rust free, but under the heading of "Belt and braces" I was thinking about treating some parts with Hydrate 80. After doing a bit of research online I still couldn't work out if whatever it turned the rust into would have problems with the heat or paraffin (If the stuff turned out to be fine with the fuel, I was even thinking it could be worth swilling some around inside the tank to catch any remaining rust blobs in the seams, and coat all the now bare, but probably flash rusted metal), so I emailed Bilt Hamber and asked about the stuffs fuel resistance and maximum working temperature when dry. Their response pretty much just said "It's not suitable. Buy our fuel tank conditioner (Gas-Mac) instead".
OK, I trust the companies products, but I've never interacted with anyone there before. That reply didn't really tell me anything particularly useful, and for all I know it could just be them trying to make more sales (Gas-Mac isn't a coating, it's a rust inhibiting additive, so it would be an ongoing additional cost/step in using this heater..... Yeah, I'm fixing it up to use, in case we DO get these rolling power cuts the government's been hinting at !).
So does anyone actually know what Hydrate 80 converts rust into? Also, what kind of temperatures could whatever it turns rust into take once it had finished reacting?
Thanks in advance for any info.
Scott.