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Originally Posted by Nath
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Steel petrol tanks are actually quite lightweight, are strong and crash well. Find someone who can weld thin steel well for  money, then find an appropriately sized steel tank off a bike with similar tank geometry, and modify it to fit.
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Make sure they really can weld if you go with a single volume. The advantage of an auxilliary tank is that when something breaks the fuel taps save part of the total. This may just involve less walking of course.
I talked to a shop in the NE of England about adding a section to the Bonneville tank. They were planning on using Petseal to make up for any pin holes in the welding. I didn't buy, I got a guy who makes lawn mower and grass track square section tanks to make me the auxilliary as he was 99.9% sure he was doing good welds into good metal. No gloop required.
Andy
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