[SEL] Working on a Maytag for my Grandson.

[Elden DuRand]

John:

You can get glyptol at places like McMaster-Carr (mcmaster.com).  I don't know how it would work as a gas tank sealer but it is used as insulation and moisture proofing for finished windings on motors, inside crankcases, etc.

Take care - Elden
edurand at iglou.com
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> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 06:32 AM
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> Subject: Re: [SEL] Working on a Maytag for my Grandson.
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> 
> I bought some Glyptol (Glyptal) last year from a 
> place in New York, I think 
> the name was Creswel, Caswell, something like 
> that, just Google it. I was 
> welding the transmission case on my Titan back 
> together. I wanted something 
> to seal any hairline cracks as well as sand pits 
> in the casting. I talked to 
> one of their engineers and he said it would work. 
> It was around $30 a quart. 
> I talked to every engine machinist I could think 
> of and none knew where I 
> could buy the exact stuff used in engine blocks.
> 
> As for using it in a gas tank I'd just use a tank 
> sealer or nothing. I 
> wouldn't think you'd get that much of a rust problem.
> 
> John