Hi! Brian.
I'd better let those who have done it respond.
Bob Harrison. Europa 337 MK 1
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From: forum-owner@europaclub.org.uk
Subject: Re: Seatback sight tube
> Hi! Cleve.
> I know it may be a quick death anyway but sod it being sat in a ring of
fuel
> in plastic pipes and cooking whilst you struggle to get down to terra
firma.
> The longer I can delay fuel adding to the fire, I think in my small mind,
is
> probably proportional to the distance the fuel is from the front of the
> cockpit. That's why my sight gauge is encased in a rigid plastic pipe
> containing gliscerine whilst in the internal cockpit. I reasoned that no
> bare fuel lines under my bum or in front of my body may just give me time
to
> reach my extinguisher and delay my cooking longer yet maybe not long
enough!
> I have an Andair gascolator in the tunnel and all my pipes albeit in
rubber
> and plastic pass through the tunnel.
> It's very busy in there with cables,transducer box,valve, pump and pipes
but
> it can be done.
> I would also think that this is why many are putting in aluminium fuel
> lines.
> Regards
> Bob H G-PTAG
Do you mean that people switch to aluminum lines because they are smaller
in diameter and fit in the tunnel better, or because they are safer in
a fire? I am a little nervous about aluminum, since if it is not well
installed it can crack due to vibration.
Brian
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