Brodhead Pietenpol Association

Original Posted By: B and V Dearinger
Walter Evans: Thanks for the tip about having a perfectly clean tankinterior. When I laid up my glass layers, I painted every loose glassstrand down with extra resin to insure there won't be anything looseinside. With my brother helping me, we started laying fiberglass atnoon and finished at 5:30. It went well, but on finishing I hope I neverhave to build another one. I'm using the Gary(Keri Ann) Price plans. 2halves in female molde that I will join together at te seam. After Ihave bonded all of my nuts in place, Price calls for another wet coat ofresin inside before joining the 2 halves. A local Piet builder with aglass tank had a piece of debree get to his carb. and caused an offairprt landing, but when he built his gascolater he didn"t realise thatit is supose to have a screen in it! Yes, I'm very conserned about that.Leon S.________________________________________________________________________________

Original Posted By: B and V Dearinger
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Glass fuel tankWalter Evans: Thanks for the tip about having a perfectly clean tankinterior. When I laid up my glass layers, I painted every loose glassstrand down with extra resin to insure there won't be anything looseinside. With my brother helping me, we started laying fiberglass atnoon and finished at 5:30. It went well, but on finishing I hope I neverhave to build another one. I'm using the Gary(Keri Ann) Price plans. 2halves in female molde that I will join together at te seam. After Ihave bonded all of my nuts in place, Price calls for another wet coat ofresin inside before joining the 2 halves. A local Piet builder with aglass tank had a piece of debree get to his carb. and caused an offairprt landing, but when he built his gascolater he didn"t realise thatit is supose to have a screen in it! Yes, I'm very conserned about that.Leon S.________________________________________________________________________________

Original Posted By: Leon Stefan
This brings up a point that my mentor had told me....Make sure that you puta "finger strainer" in the tank. This is like a screen made in the shape ofa cigar,sticking up. This is so any debris like fiberglass flake, leaf, bugwing, etc. that might fall into the tank, can't find it's way to the fueloutput, and cover it. This goes for any tank, no matter what the mat'l. Hesaid that a number of planes have gone down because of this.walt evans------Original Message-----

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Original Posted By: walter evans
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