Oil Tank Sealing

[etemplet]

I sealed an oil tank using a soldering iron and wished I had our old one from 50 years ago that I can't find. I think that baby would do a number on melting the plastic. When I sealed the tank I just melted what was there... together. Took me a while. Now I'm looking for a much quicker way. I've seen some high heat plastic welders from $80 to $400. I just want something that will weld this stuff rather quickly... like plastic brazing. I've read you need roughly 320 degrees F to work this plastic.

Does anyone have a method that rocks and rolls??

 

[GGuillot]

Melting and dripping 1/4" poly line onto the tank seam, which the tank itself is polypropylene, fuses the seam very well. I did this 4 yrs ago on the GTX rebuild and haven't had a leak yet.

 

[Michael55]

I used Bondic on a used tank after obsessively cleaning and drying i. Bondic is UV activated and is immediate once the supplied uv pen is used…mine hasn’t leaked yet.

 

[Needle]

Jb weld.. all day

 

[Stealth800]

I did the melting of the polyethylene tubing with a small butane torch and it worked well.

 

[etemplet]

I used Bondic on a used tank after obsessively cleaning and drying i. Bondic is UV activated and is immediate once the supplied uv pen is used…mine hasn’t leaked yet.

I never heard of that stuff. How is the cost?

 

[Needle]

$6 autozone