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Ya me! The e85 will work as good as any other solvent but! It will take all the paint off of your parts washer. As for inside a gas can it depends on what is in there. E85 will do nothing for rust. It will cut the lard like stuff that sometimes is left in the bottom of the tank from years of setting. I like to wash a tank as good as I can then let it set to dry. Then get inside with my shop vaccume. I tape a piece of water hose to the end of my shop vaccume hose and a putty knife to a stick, Scrap and suck ti’ll you get tired. Let it set, then do it again. I made a contraption to attach a gas can to the wheel of my lawn mower. Threw some nuts inside, drove around the yard but that didn’t work so good. It would need about a week of steady turning to make a difference. Pressure tanks have a bigger hole to work with when you get the aluminum centers out. Lots of ideas for cleaning tanks. All of them require lots of work!
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