Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:57:39 +0000
From: "Andy Draper" <andy@europa-aircraft.com>
Subject: Re: Fuel Smell
Dear Tom,
I apologise if I didn't respond to any e-mails that you had previously sent.
This
is due to them not being received by me in the first place I'm afraid. At
least I have no record of them being received in the last 30 days (my system
deletes the trash after this time).
Regarding the fuel smell issue with relation to the fuel filler hose, I have
been
investigating this since Ron Jones advised me of a problem where his hose
seemed to be leeching fuel. Is this the same problem that you have?
Although no reason for this happening has been identified so far, with the
assumption
that there may be a material / batch problem I have secured a new batch
of these hoses, one of which will be sent to you. Would you please let me know
the result of fitting it to your aircraft, say after a week or so?
We have been supplying these hoses since the XS was introduced and only recently
have there been complaints such as yours, so although it's puzzelling to have
a problem now I'm confident that a solution will be found.
Please note that Tech support addresses are either andy, neville or
roger@europa-aircraft.com.
Messages sent to one of these addresses will arrive directly
to our desks and will be responded to quickly.
Best Regards
Andy Draper
Technical Director
e-mail andy@europa-aircraft.com
>>> Tom & Cathy Friedland <tfriedland@home.com> 26/11/01 18:34:11 >>>
A few weeks ago I posted a couple messages about the gasoline smell
passing through the supplied fuel filler hose. I was surprised to find
that there was little interest in this problem. John Hurst at Lakeland
responded as said to forward it to Andy directly if I wanted his
response. I did that but have not received any reply.
The problem: It has been reported that the hose was porous and that the
smell would transverse the wall thickness. I plugged both ends of my
piece with auto gas inside. In a few weeks the smell was so bad I had
to remove it from a large garage space. I cannot imagine what the
effect would be in a Europa cockpit=21 After emptying it and now 2 weeks
later, it still stinks just as bad.
Jim Thursby suggested red stripe marine fuel hose but the manufacturer
states that it can be use for fuel transfer but cannot have fuel present
all of the time as the fuel will dissolve the hose=21
I read somewhere NACA fuel filler hose will work. I obtained some, put
the gas in and sealed the ends. Now, only about 2 weeks later, there
is a small but definite fuel odor on the hose.
Is this a problem only for those using Yankee auto gas? It is a big
problem for me. Anyone else?
Andy, can you please provide a solution?
Tom Friedland A079 XS Mono J3300 N96V
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