{"id":526,"date":"2007-01-02T20:44:44","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T01:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/?p=526"},"modified":"2013-03-31T16:42:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T20:42:36","slug":"and-then-there-was-proseal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"And then there was Proseal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And then there was Proseal. Vans&#8217; instructions cover this process pretty well, and I used Dan Checkoway&#8217;s narrative as well to help visualize the process.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really helpful to have everything you need in one place before doing any mixing and sealing. I found a relatively cheap digital scale which made it relatively easy to measure out the Proseal. I also spent a fair amount of time cleaning the skin and stiffeners with MEK to get them nice and clean. It&#8217;s important to have lots of latex or nitrile gloves &#8211; you&#8217;ll need &#8217;em. Also have lots of rags and MEK (or naptha) on hand for cleanup. I also put a couple dozen rivets in a glass jar with some MEK to keep them clean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tank_proseal_stuff2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-527 aligncenter\" title=\"tank_proseal_stuff\" alt=\"Proseal supplies\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tank_proseal_stuff2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tank_proseal_stuff2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tank_proseal_stuff2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not much I can add to Dan&#8217;s process, so I won&#8217;t try &#8211; except to emphasize the difficulty in checking shop heads on the back-riveted stiffener rivets. There&#8217;s one rivet there I&#8217;m not proud of on the right tank skin, but it wasn&#8217;t worth the trouble to drill out &#8211; and it&#8217;s covered with Proseal anyway. Here&#8217;s my first attempt at tank sealing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tank_stiffeners_sealed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-528 aligncenter\" title=\"tank_stiffeners_sealed\" alt=\"Riveted stiffeners\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tank_stiffeners_sealed.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tank_stiffeners_sealed.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tank_stiffeners_sealed-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And then there was Proseal. Vans&#8217; instructions cover this process pretty well, and I used Dan Checkoway&#8217;s narrative as well to help visualize the process. It&#8217;s really helpful to have everything you need in one place before doing any mixing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=526\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuel-tanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}