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Fuel tank repair: Day 2 --- cleaning

Yesterday I had put the MARINE CLEAN into the tank to clean the inside of the tank.  This day was the continuation work. 
In order to make the MARINE CLEAN spread in the tank, I did upside down the tank in every few hours.



In a meantime for waiting, I cleaned the inside of the garage, such as moving the shelves.
I forgot to take a picture before cleaning, but it became a little better.


While doing such things, more than 24 hours were passed since I put the MARINE CLEAN in the tank.
I took out the liquid inside the tank and found the brown liquid that seemed to contain many rust coming out from the tank.


I checked the inside of the tank, but it was not clean enough.  So, I would put the 2nd bottle of the MARINE CLEAN and boiled water and leave it until tomorrow afternoon.



(My original blog was written on 12th Aug. 2008)

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