Hi Phil,
Sorry for the long story that follows :-)
One of the messages mentioning finger strainers was from Bob Harrison. He had a
forced landing once, because the strainers were blocked by debris and dog hair.
At the time i read that message, i was sure there would not be any hair in
my tank. However, a bit later i noticed a dog hair on the outside of the tank,
still in the unmounted cockpit module. The dog had never been in the workshop.
But the tank is so static, that it pulled the hair from my clothes. Carefully
cleaning the tank, i collected quite a lot of everything, including a lot of
lint, from the surface. That made me think about the usefulness of these
strainers,
since there would be gascolator downstream anyway. They will keep small
pebbles and peas from blocking the fuel lines upstream of the gascolater, and
will be blocked by anything like lint. I do not expect much peas entering the
tank. Peas and pebbles are not static. Inspecting the finger restrainers on a
regular bases is so difficult, that it will probably
lead to no inspection ever. Hence there are no restrainers on my bird. But
then
i am not handicapped by PFA.
Regards,
Jos Okhuijsen
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