a good thing to use on the tank is cold galvanize [high zinc] spray [sometimes sold as weld-thru zinc primer], the tank would have been galvanized originally, straps too

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics