This topic gets questioned, and cautioned several times a year, so if you go back and do a search you"ll probably come up with half a million ways to do it, and twice the amount of reasons not to.
That said, my advice every time someone asks is to recommend dry ice. It's readily available from several different grocery stores (at least around here), and it's cheap. The best thing is it does two things for you. One it is extremely cold so it keeps the tank temps from getting to hot, and, given that it"s pure C02, it will not promote combustion so the tank can"t explode. Too if you put in several pieces, it constantly replentishes itself.
That said I have repaired quite a few gas, diesel, and kerosene tanks using it and given that I am still here to type this it must work pretty well. Not to mention the outfit I got the trick from (via my Dad) used it in cutting up underground gas tanks in order to scrap them.
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