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“A tank can not sandblast you,” said Theo Daschlein its visitors in the Central Franconian Bechhofen happy and plausible. He moves the grate with body chemistry.


A cure for rusty surfaces is sandblasting. Unfortunately, this throws if it relates to the inside of a motorcycle tanks, two main problems: first, reached the beam is not guaranteed every corner, second is hardly fast enough to figure out the blast from the tank to work properly can. Remnants of sand that stick in a groove, not to speak first.

Theo Daschlein goes another way, he fights the rust with chemistry, more precisely, with acid. But before that is used is a thorough cleaning: The 50-bar steam radiators up at temperatures from 80 to 90 degrees already all kinds of dirt from the surface to be treated. Then bring the tank 24 hours, sometimes longer, at 70 to 80 degrees in a Entfetterbad.

After re-evaporation of the central operation follows: An active base removes the rust that has accumulated in the tank, and forms a support layer for the paint. Again, time and temperature are the decisive factors: If the asset base in the tank for too long, it can eat holes into the metal. If it remains too short, he does not convert all the rust. To really get all the corners, Daschlein works in two courses: one is the tank right side up, once on the head. To seal each while the fuel tap and tank nozzles properly zusammenimprovisiert he has an arsenal of tools, there is no shortage of ideas to him truthfully. Excess active base is removed and the tank interior paint applied by Däschlein rotate the tank by hand. This is similar to that for sand blasting: With the gun would not be out everywhere.

Theo Daschlein makes no secret of where he got his miracle remedies: the company supplied him Ammon in Schweinfurt. As could buy each and try yourself at a Tankentrostung. Most of those who had dared, after ruefully confessed to him before the door is level experience in any manual. The proper handling of these highly toxic substances and their proper disposal is already a chapter in itself.