Episode 26 - Scooter Gas Tank Repair

SHOWNOTES: Just a quick reminder, I now have a voice mail number
you can call from your phone 206-888-6174. It is listed at the top
of the web page and should scroll in the podcast title for those of
you using an ipod. The POR-15 product for reconditioning my 180ss
tank came this week. Take my suggestion and just order it from the
company website, it was here in three days. If you are planning
this project, make sure you have time to complete the whole thing,
that way there is less likelihood of any flash rusting, before you
can get the tank coated. Just so you know, you will not find that
everyone agrees with coating a tank. I think this comes from using
inferior product and having the tank lining deteriorate over time.
There is an interesting blog post over on Modvespa.com taking about
the restoration of an NSU scooter. NSU is from Germany and this on
has been on the scoot.net website before. It is a 1956 Prima D and
I'll have links to both the ModVespa blog post and the original
post at scoot.net. This is the kind of European scooter you don't
see over in the US very often. Vespa has started pushing hard on
their “Go Green? campaign The have put up another flashy website
encouraging us all to make videos praising the Vespa as a tree
hugger's dream. At the moment there are only a few short clips, but
given that they are offering to give away a couple of scooters for
the best ones, I'm sure they will start flooding in. There will be
a link in the show notes to the Go Green Vespa Video Challenge.