'The Fuel Tank' | Vespa Restoration - Episode Two 

Luckily pre covid when my fuel tap failed not only my local scooter shop Atoms scooters in maidstone supplied the part but also let me use their tools in shop to replace the new fuel tap. I did bring the tank with me. Scooter community ! Nice job ...enjoying this video

4:20 that's why god invented box spanners 👌

Very professional RU-vid channel. Great camerawork and editing

Great first video, I would have been temped to do a full respray after so much fab work, but each tother own 👍😁.

Making yr own tools? Damn good skills to have.

Always get satisfaction from making special tools to solve problem and save money, you did a great job on yours Dom.👍👍

Great bit of innovation Dom, well done. It's not the £15 saving it's the satisfaction of sorting it out without the delay of waiting for it to arrive, probably from China. Regards Keith

Followed you here from Repair Shop. Love that and love this. Thanks for sharing Dom! 👍

Looking forward to each new video. As with the Repair Shop it's great to see in this throw away society. Great workshop by the way.

Yellow is a relatively easy colour to match and with this build that’s just perfect 👌 great job 👍🏼

Well done Dom! Nice to see an honest restoration instead of making it look like it just came off the production line like so many do. Good work on the tool you made, always remember " It ain't stupid if it works" Cheers Simon

I don't have the right tool, so "I'll just make my own". The man.

Ingenious! Scooters are not my thing, but your inventiveness on that “spanner” was great. Another interesting video. I’m binge-watching all your stuff. Les

Hey Dom. 👋🏻😃 Great job pal. Tank looks awesome and nice home made tool!! 🇬🇧 Deano. 😃👍🏻

Love that ya made the tool you needed.

Its only original once Dom, top job😉

Edd China and Dom, that would be fantastic.

I wish I had the time in my life to just potter with stuff like this as much as I wanted

Great to watch Dom

Top work Dom! Fuel tank looks awesome!

I’ve restored many Vespas over the years , great work so far better than some Vespa mechanics I’ve seen . My tank spanner is a spanner cut down welded to bar out of a mastic gun !

I'm so glad you kept the original paint. too many other Vespa owners are quick to paint over it, like you said, its less work to do that. Then to do what you did. At this point you're preserving the history of that Vespa. I cannot stand ANY customization of these old bikes. Keep it all original as much as possible. Only replace whats missing or too far gone.

Very interesting resto job. Personally I wouldn't be able to resist repainting it.

I like that you are keeping the original paint color. You are not “mental,”

You can get a "crow foot" for your ratchet for a few quid..............But you made your own. brilliant!!

A great tool Dom, kind regards, Richard.

"So clean you could eat yer dinner of of it". But you would have fashion another special tool to do that! A great watch again.

Love to see you on youtube ! Only really watch the repair shop for the metal working projects that you do ! Keep the videos coming ! All the best !

Nice one Dom. You were made for a You Tube channel. Great watch. Very jealous of your workshop! 👍

Nice one Dom, been following you on Instagram it’s good to see more detail on your RU-vid videos.

A plumber's basin wrench will work for the nut in the fuel tank.

Making your own tool is a great idea and something ive had to do in the past, quick tip though you could have put a magnet on it to help get the nut back on again

Dom - you could have saved yourself lots of time and effort making a tool for the internal nut - ever heard of a box spanner..?? Even if you could only get a short one you could have used your fabrication skills to extend.! Great programme.! Dead jealous was goin to do a Vespa up myself sometime.!

A basin wrench, used in plumbing to tighten the a large nut on the under side of a sink, when installing faucets, would work for the fuel tank valve nut.

I have a cut socket welded to a L shaped rod for my petcock removal tool.

cool tank episode :) and making your own tool for that job :) great idea to save some cash :)

Nice

Great work, May I ask how you cleaned out the inside of the tank ?

Superb DOM I’m sure that replacement nut was harder to fit than you made it look... QQ how did you get the old nut off the old sender unit?

Loving the videos but when you going to do a Lambretta 😀

How did you clean the inside of it?

How did you get the inside clean??

I reckon I'd have clear coated after the first rub back Dom... looks fab though

you need rubber gasket for nut on tank

Great video .will you be doing any build work on the porsche in the future .would make a great feature car for 'Hayburner ' magazine

In my old job we mixed thinners to half the volume of paint, as Boss's instructions. What did you do?

plumbers tap wrench would have done that £5 nut in the tank

Very good editing, but why tell when you can show?

Oi no Rat jobs!

Hey where did you get that paint matched so well?? Have a yellow beetle and struggled to get it matched and still isn’t as good as that Greet videos by the way

Hasn't anybody heard of a box spanner? Widely available an cheap as chips.

Vespa is Wasp in Italy.......... you can see why they are called Vespa's then!