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Old 08-21-2011, 09:44 AM
Rickd4004 Rickd4004 is offline
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Hello,

I am building another new motorcycle and this time I want to tackle an aluminum fuel tank. Looking for further information on working/shaping aluminum.

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Old 08-21-2011, 11:54 AM
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Welcome to Allmetalshaping Rick!
If you do a search you will find a lot of information on M/C gas tanks
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Old 08-21-2011, 01:42 PM
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Hello Rick, welcome to the site. Can you gas weld aluminium? if not you will need to learn to weld it first. I show a little of the making af an aluminium tank on my youtube footage.

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Old 08-21-2011, 08:20 PM
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Welcome Rick, You will find heaps of info about working/shaping aluminum on here
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