Hi! All
I don't quite follow where this thread came from but if you get a
bendable probe it is by comparison a "piece of cake" to go through the
area between the head rests with a large elliptical hole big enough to
get your hand through and have future contamination inspections too.
There is a mod. with the PFA on this question but there's some
re-enforcing to do round the edges of the double skin hole to do and you
need to get the three plies of bid wrapped underneath between the tank
top and the main structure. I carefully carved my hole out with a
Stanley Knife in big chunks therefore not leaving any swarf in the tank.
Regards
Bob Harrison G-PTAG Europa MKI/Jabiru 3300
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From: owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Peter Rees
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Fuel sender etc.
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If you follow the Europa way of cutting the hole using a soldering iron,
it
takes a long time to clean up the holes but doesn't generate any swarf.
(though totals your soldering iron bit!) You really need a right angle /
45
degree one - a straight one will be really hard going).
We contemplated long and hard to try and find easier ways to do the job
but
the most tricky bit by a long way is putting the split ring in while
working
inside the headrest and there is no easy way of doing that. The sender
has
to go here due to the shape of the tank so no easy way around this.
One tip is to use a dremmel or other small cutter to cut the hole in the
ply
seatback to get access to the tank. Andy (or the instructions)
recommended
using a starret type cutter on a lever arm and trying to cut the hole
this
way but there seemed to be no way to get enough pressure to get the
thing to
bite. Drill a pilot hole to gauge how far in the dremmel can go before
it
touches the tank (if you drill this in the middle of the ply hole you're
going to cut out, if you hit the tank, it doesn't matter as you're going
to
cut this bit of the tank out).
If you're not dexterous and happy with spending several hours kneeling
on
the stbd seatback, I'd probably try someone who has done the job and see
if
they could 'give you a hand' (do the job while you make them lots of
tea).
It really, really wasn't a fun job (though it really does work very well
indeed!).
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