ok,
I have to mention something here. Please anybody
chime in if you have better experiences..
I used to build glass and wood boats. I built
more than a few fiberglass fuel tanks.
Just building a hollow tank and having no debris
in the fuel coming out is a big challenge. It generally
took three or four disposable fuel filters and
as many tanks of fuel run through to get most of the
garbage out. Fortunately in the boat it did
not matter if the engine quit with a plugged
filter on a hot calm summer day on the lake.
Having it quit on the upwind in your airplane
is a different story.
Now someone is suggesting filling the thing with FOAM?!?
How much free foam will it take to block the fuel filter?
I know others here do, Ask them for their experiences.
I would never even use a fiberglass tank in an airplane,
much less one with anything inside that could break off
and plug the system.
Give me a nice, clean aluminum tank, pickled in fuel.
jg
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 11:04 +1000, Darren Crompton wrote:
> If using foam in the fuel tanks to reduce "sloshing", are you able to do
> away with building in baffles and how much does the foam reduce tank
> capacity by?
>
> Cheers
>
