John Shaffer wrote: > My experience has been that the alcohol in automotive gasoline, will > dissolve the Vinyl Ester resin I used in my fuel tanks, in my KR -2.
I used Derakane Momentum 411-350 (the vinyl ester that Aircraft Spruce sells) to build N56ML's fuel tanks, and never have seen any indication that they are weakened, and I've run several thousand gallons of autofuel with ethanol through them over the years. It may be that some fuel laden with "outlier" chemicals in it (like what wrecked Jeff's Cub tanks) is what really did your tank in. Vinyl ester was supposedly designed to contain auto fuel with ethanol in it. I learned my lesson from my Swift. I poured some "no-name" ethanol free fuel in it a few years ago. I should have known better....it had a not-so-subtle funky smell to it. I came back to the hangar a week later and was greeted by the funky smell at the door. Both 1.5" fuel tank hoses (that connect the wing tanks to the main sump in the fuselage) had been dissolved to the point that all of the fuel in both tanks had leaked out on the floor and evaporated, leaving nothing but the funk! Fortunately, none of that crap made it to the pumps or the carb, or I'd have had a bigger mess on my hands.... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL ML "at" N56ML.com www.N56ML.com _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
