Polyethylene tanks are common in ultralights. TK
On 19 February 2014 04:52, Wayne Tokarz <pietdriver at icloud.com> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
