Cleaning your buffer/water tanks

[Jake_Lambert]

If it’s that red/orange color that the white HDPE tanks get after a long time, you should see the results I got with just water and oxalic. It was night and day

Buffer tank whitening

Long story short, I got an amazing deal on a 225 gallon buffer tank yesterday. It was used, and looked pretty orange. I spent more on gas than on the tank itself, thinking at the bare minimum it was worth experimenting with to see if I could whiten it. Google searches turn up a bunch of people trying to whiten their motorcycle tanks (they have to be boiled and soaked in various acids), and searches of this website turned up nothing. So I decided to create a topic for anyone looking to save s…