• Fondots@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    What exactly is involved in taking care of it?

    If it involves more than a couple trips through the automatic car wash a year I’d personally rather just forego the shiny bits altogether.

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      4 months ago

      You usually need to buff it because calcium builds up on it. If your in the states eighteen wheelers gas tanks are usually made of aluminum and they pay good money to get them polished.

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        4 months ago

        That’s very surprising to me, I’d always assumed tankers were stainless steel. Do they have to have a lining inside?

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          4 months ago

          They would have to now days. I don’t t think they originally did. My understanding is the stainless steel ones rust quickly.

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            4 months ago

            Stainless doesn’t really rust out as most of the iron is gone.