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1. 09:17 AM - fiberglass fuel tanks fuel sender (jridgway)
2. 10:12 AM - Re: fiberglass fuel tanks fuel sender (carlisle)
3. 03:28 PM - Re: fiberglass fuel tanks fuel sender (jridgway)
4. 05:36 PM - Re: Re: fiberglass fuel tanks fuel sender (Dan Wild)
5. 07:23 PM - Re: Re: fiberglass fuel tanks needed (Malcolm Brubaker)
6. 07:42 PM - Re: Re: fiberglass fuel tanks fuel sender (Noel Loveys)
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| Subject: | fiberglass fuel tanks fuel sender |
HI,
I got a KF3 several years ago. It has fiberglass fuel tanks in each wing.
The previous builder put a capacitance sender on the top of each wing.
One of these senders is starting to leak at the seam. Does anybody know if these
tanks have a molded screw in them or if the fiberglass was just tapped. I am
thinking about taking one out but did not want to loose a bolt or any special
backing plate.
thanks..jack
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| Subject: | Re: fiberglass fuel tanks fuel sender |
Sorry I can't answer your question but I'm curious. I've wanted to install a capacitive
sender in my 13 gal fiberglass tank for a long time. Can you tell me
where/how yours is mounted?
Thanks,
Chris
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| Subject: | Re: fiberglass fuel tanks fuel sender |
On the inboard rear of the tank. Have one on each side. Never could get them calibrated.
Jack
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| Subject: | Re: fiberglass fuel tanks fuel sender |
I am installing a new fiberglass tank . All holes were just tapped threads
in the tank. don't know if they were all done that way.
Dan
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From: "jridgway" <jridgway@academicplanet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 5:25 PM
Subject: Kitfox-List: Re: fiberglass fuel tanks fuel sender
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> On the inboard rear of the tank. Have one on each side. Never could get
> them calibrated.
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| Subject: | Re: fiberglass fuel tanks needed |
i need at least-1 tank im working on a mod 3 with a dash tank-- mal
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| Subject: | Re: fiberglass fuel tanks fuel sender |
It sounds to me that you need to know a few of the basics about capacitance
fuel sending units.
First of all there are actually two sending units. The first one is always
located in a place where it is always covered with fuel. Read: the lowest
part of the tank. This has the advantage that the fuel sender can also
operate as a water sensor... Water sinks to the lowest part of the tank and
has a different dielectric constant than fuel... Water gets in there and
bells start ringing!
The second thing to know is the physical shape of the sending unit is
determined by the shape of the tank. On large aircraft there may actually
be more than one sending unit per tank. This can give correction for the
weird shape of wet wings and offer corrections for attitudes other than
wings level. The calibration you did was a simple gain calibration so
unfortunately wouldn't correct for anything other than a perfectly square
tank. If you have time to experiment, you can modify the shape of your
sending unit, the top one, to be extremely accurate.
Noel
> <jridgway@academicplanet.com>
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> On the inboard rear of the tank. Have one on each side. Never could get
> them calibrated.
> Jack
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