Dear Gerry
Thank you for your detailed reply but yes I rember I had aheard of the gauge
but thought it was to be installed within the tank and I did not want to cut
into the tank.
And thank you also for your reply to Ferg and Craig.
Just as I got my kit in 1996 I had to spend 3 yrs building a new front on
the house we had just moved into. Add some urgently needed jobs in Rotary
Club, and then as you Gerry, would know, and Josok may not, there was
1000hrs work on the fin, rudder wings and tailplanes that is now already
done in the kit.
Thank you Josok for your thoughts about getting assistance; I am only too
aware now that time is running out.
I hope to finish filling the flying pieces in the next couple of weeks
(using depth strings, and a roller over clear plastic to squeeze the filler
to level, as suggested by Kingsley Hurst) and add the fillets.
Now thanks to Josok's arguments I will have asssistance with completing the
filling on the fuselage and to spray the primer-filling . My son-in-law will
build a David Watts type trailer.
And yes there is a great lot more to think about!
JR (Bob) Gowing UK kit 327 in Oz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerry Cole" <gccole13@btinternet.com>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Completed monowheel airframe for sale (JR Gowing)
>
> Hi Bob,
> You are a couple of years older than me and have broken what I thought
> was the longest build-time record.
>
> The Lyndhurst fuel level indicator is now part of Europa's mod 60 Kit
> for fitting to the Europa fuel tank. It is supplied by Lyndhurst -
> Touchdown - Services Ltd (www.avnet.co.uk/touchdown) to the precise length
> specified by the buyer. I bought mine from Touchdown before mod 60
> appeared.
> The sensor is a sealed stainless steel tube housing 8 reed switches.
> These are activated by an external magnetic ring float. My mod 10710 has
> this sensor assembly housed in a precision-made fibreglass tube, flanged
> at the top and sealed at the bottom with an embedded boss holding a 90 deg
> inlet pipe fitting. A thick machined aluminium ring at the top carries the
> outlet pipe fitting. The unit is inserted in to the left hand vent line
> and is mounted on a substantial bracket reduxed to the forward baggage bay
> bulkhead just behind the fuel tank ( the mod 74 lift-pin crosstube passes
> between my unit and the bulkhead with a small clearance). It took two
> attempts and a complex jig to get the fibre glass tube right and then six
> months to clear the mod with our PFA (now LAA). I also had to do the
> pressure test specified in JAR-VLA 965 - equivalent to an eleven foot head
> of fuel. The main advantage is, being translucent, it is possible to see
> the fuel level in the tube in your pre-flight ckecks and you have a
> proper contents indicator on the panel.
> If you would like more detail (and several week's work!), please
> contact me off list and I will be pleased to help.
>
> Sincerely
> Gerry Cole, kit 121
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JR Gowing" <jrgowing@bigpond.net.au>
> To: <europa-list@matronics.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 10:54 PM
> Subject: Re: Europa-List: Completed monowheel airframe for sale
>
>
>>
>> Dear Gerry
>>
>> You did not say how old you were!
>>
>> I am 77 and done most of what you have on my kit no. 327 more than 6000
>> hrs or so and I too have concerns about whether I can finish the job.
>>
>> I have not heard of the Lyndhurst Fuel Sensor and would like to know how
>> you arranged it "in a separate fuel stack that allows a visual pre-flight
>> check on contents."
>>
>> I would be pleased if you felt like telling me and the other list members
>> enough to give us a feel for the project )
>>
>> Maybe more questions might arise if you could tolerate them.
>>
>> Sincerely
>>
>> JR (bob) Gowing UK Kit 327 in Oz
>
>
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> Date: 6/04/2008 11:12 AM
>
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