Let's put this one to rest, In all the world of motor sports and vehicles, only ONE plastic is used to make fuel tanks and gas cans, polyethylene, period. Without any technical backing to this, other than a life time of observation, and owning an assortment of vehicles. I only know of 3 materials used to contain fuel in the aviation world, (must be a reason for it), metal, (either aluminum or steel), rubber, (bladders), vinyl-ester resins in composite tanks. Pretty sure I'll get corrected on this one! LOL. There is only so much we can do to our little planes, but with fuel problems being the no.1 cause of small plane crashes and home builts in particular, I sure as heck would not want to be statistic, so I would be very conservative in my fuel system/tank design.
Rant of the day, LOL Wayne -----Original Message----- From: KRnet [mailto:krnet-bounces at list.krnet.org] On Behalf Of jon kimmel Sent: February-18-14 10:54 AM To: KRnet Subject: Re: KR> Fuel Tanks. I recently questioned why there was a difference between pvc pipe and pvc fence posts...i looked at a site called weatherables.com....their vinyl fence posts are definitely pvc. I e-mailed them and asked why there might be a difference and they didn't know. I thought that the difference might be in the manufacturing process...maybe there's more porosity in the pipe. https://sites.google.com/site/mykr2stretch/ https://sites.google.com/site/mykr2stretch/parts-for-sale _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options
