----- Original Message -----
From: Darrell Daniels
To: Q-LIST@...
Sent: Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:41
Subject: Re: [Q-LIST] Fuel Tanks


Are you making your own aluminium tanks Darrell Daniels
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From: "Allan Farr" <afarr@...>
To: <Q-LIST@...>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Q-LIST] Fuel Tanks

>I have had the same thoughts, and after lots of excellent advice from
>various Q-Listers I am going for aluminium for my main tank. I will leave
>some of the composite tank structure in place (front/sides/centre) so as to
>not compromise structural integrity. It will weigh more but I'm only 57kg
>(9 st) so I don't care.
> Allan F
> Q2
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Darrell Daniels
> To: Q-LIST@...
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:19
> Subject: [Q-LIST] Fuel Tanks
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> I have been searching the archives as I am still not satisfied with the
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> that fuel can leak through you tank and into the foam of you airplane . I
> also wan to burn auto fuel . After all of my reading it seems the only
> people who have actually done anything is using a slosh coating which is
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> really practical it a Q but it seems to be the only option is you want to
> burn car gas or rid of the possible fuel leak.
> The one exception is in the Archive Sam in one entry said something
> about using a fuel resistant epoxy but you could not get to all of the
> places to sand to easily recoat the entire inside of the tank. Any other
> ideas or am I making much to do for nothing Darrell Daniels Tri Q rebuild
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