Pressed Steel Tanks

[jgarysmith]

Just bought 2 new PST 120 E-7's. Cand anyone tell me if the can be coated with some sort of clear coat to prevent it from getting the dull finish it turns to? I know most serious divers preffer them to turn grey,but I don't. I like the way the look coming from the shop. Any suggestions?

 

[FredT]

Leave them ALONE! The galvanizing works by sacrificial corrosion. Coat it with anything and you kill the protection!

If you HAVE to have them shiny get a tube of Flitz metal polish and have at it after each dive. Dull will get to be quite beautiful after about half the tube is gone!

FT

 

[Green_Manelishi]

Just bought 2 new PST 120 E-7's. Cand anyone tell me if the can be coated with some sort of clear coat to prevent it from getting the dull finish it turns to? I know most serious divers preffer them to turn grey,but I don't. I like the way the look coming from the shop. Any suggestions?

When they turn grey sell them to me and buy more. I don't care whether or not the gear looks faded.

 

[Warren_L]

Peel those big nasty honkin stickers off too. A hair dryer and a little time worked wonders for mine.

 

[lamont]

Peel those big nasty honkin stickers off too. A hair dryer and a little time worked wonders for mine.

PST uses a hot glue for those stickers. Any heat source will help get the stickers off. Hot water in the bathtub also works well.

 

[jgarysmith]

You guys are killing me. What's wrong with a shiny new tank? I happen to like the big sticker and sniny silver finish. Any way, how long until it looks dull and grey. Will that make me a diver then?

 

[bcsean]

they get dull in a hurry. I probably have a dozen dives on mine and they're not shiny anymore. Never thought to remove sticker, but thanks for the tips guys. Will be doing that once I get home.

 

[mannydib]

stickers tend to promote corrosion from what ive heard.
ive seen alot of examples of tanks that failed vip because the vip sticker was under the boot.
its a REALLY REALLY REALLY good idea to take the boot off every couple dives and wash the salt away.

 

[iflyprops]

Don't use heat on the sticker!!! It's too much work. Take a brand new single edge razor blade and lift the edge up enough to get ahold of it and peel the entire thing off. I have done three so far, and the first one was with heat and was way too much work...the other two that I used with the razor blade took about 30 seconds.

 

[hex92]

I pulled the PST stickers off my tank without heat or a razor blade. They just came right off. I was going to leave them on - screw what everyone else thinks- but I had no room for my Nitrox sticker. So I had to pull em off.

My girlfriend and her 5 y/o both thought the tanks looked much better with the PST sticker on. :11ztongue