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David, it wouldn’t have been painted.
Your gas tank would have been polished.
While this is contradictory to what many
believe here is some evidence to support
this.
What we call decals were actually
“Transfers”. Using a water slid or vinyl
decal wouldn’t matter as neither is what
was used originally.
These tanks are 2 pieces welded together.
You can see the seam in parts of the tank
where is doesn’t show but not where it
does or where the transfer is applied.
How did the happen?
When I have removed what remained of an
original transfer the tank is always polished
underneath.
Also the instructions for applying a transfer
in an early Johnson manual starts with
polishing the tank before replacing the
transfer.
Here are the instructions from a Johnson
manual and some examples I have found
when removing transfers that weren’t good
enough to preserve.
I don’t know when Johnson quit polishing
the gas tank but from my experience they
did well into the 30’s.
It’s your motor now so you get to decide
what would be best for it, what ever that
should be.
Tubs
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You can tell that is a water slide decal by the way
its coming off in pieces. A transfer normally wont
unless it wasn’t applied correctly. The tank looks
pretty good in your picture. Hope there are no
surprises under the paint. Checked the PTBC
You Tube channel. No video????
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That looks like a really nice example David.
If a motor gets painted early in it life it
protect the aluminum. Also the nickel on the
brass parts and the fuel lines. I’m betting your
going to find a really nice motor hiding under
that paint, including the gas tank.
Tubs
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That looks like a really nice example David.
If a motor gets painted early in it life it
protect the aluminum. Also the nickel on the
brass parts and the fuel lines. I’m betting your
going to find a really nice motor hiding under
that paint, including the gas tank.
Tubs
.Tubs,
I already cleaned the paint of the carry handle thingy and the fuel line and carb. There is a lot of the original nickel plating remaining. Why do people think paint is the answer?
Working on the muffler can now. Missing the inner one, but I can make a substitute. At least it was cheap paint and is coming off easy.
When I get brave, I will tackle the tank and hope there is no body filler hiding!
David Bartlett
Pine Tree Boating Club Chapter"I don't fully understand everything I know!"
The paint shows pride of ownership. If its someone
that doesn’t know what they are doing that can be
a problem. Not so much the paint but when they try
work on the ignition, carb, gear case, and don’t know
what they’re doing. That usually results in some
damage.
Paint on a motor isn’t always bad as it can protect
what’s underneath, depending on when it was applied.
This RBM was covered in house paint. They even
painted the points. But under the paint was a really
nice motor. It had a nice gas tank. The original
owner had pined the reversing mechanism so it
wouldn’t operate and it was in mint condition. The
motor also had the optional tilt mechanism.
I expect you’ll find an unusually nice gas tank under
the silver paint. Someone that was good enough with
bondo so it wouldn’t show should have been able to
given it better paint job.
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