Tim, Orma and All, I thought the tank from Rand was Vinylester. At least that is what I was told many years ago. Vinylester is what all of the plastic automobile service station gas tanks are made of. Visit one of their manufacturing sites and you can see for yourself that vinylester resins are not affected by any of the modern fuel additives.
The tank in the Wannabee is from Rand and is put together with vinylester resin. When I built it I made up some test strips from the tank and strips of glass with vinylester resin all bonded together. I let them cure for one month in the hot South Carolina sunshine and rain (UV rays and all). Then I soaked them in five diffrent brands of additive rich gasolines for three months. Absolutely no ill effects. We will be burning 92 octane automobile gasoline in our GPASC 2180cc VW. N64KR KRJerry Jerry Mahurin Lugoff, SC > > From: "Timothy Bellville" <soner...@worldnet.att.net> > Date: 2003/05/06 Tue PM 11:12:37 EDT > To: "KR builders and pilots" <kr...@mylist.net> > Subject: Re: KR>Fuel Tank > > Thanks Orma, > My tests have all proved the same as you say. The west system peeled right > off of the poly. Poly to poly seems the best way to go. > My only concern is not being able to use Auto fuel with the poly tank, > because of the Toluene added. Oh well Avgas it is. > BTW when do you want to get together for that steak dinner? > Thanks > Tim > KR2 N7038V > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <aviationm...@aol.com> > To: <kr...@mylist.net> > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 8:32 PM > Subject: Re: KR>Fuel Tank > > > > In a message dated 5/5/2003 8:55:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > > soner...@worldnet.att.net writes: > > > > > a RR fuel tank that is made out of Polyester resin > > > > You are correct that the RR tank is polyester resin. Why not use > polyester > > resin. It's easy to work with and is fuel proof. > > > > Orma aka AviationMech > > KR-2 N110LR > > 1984 to Present > > www.members.aol.com/aviationmech > > _______________________________________________ > > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html >
