Good day, today I’m continuing to work on the right wing fuel tank ribs. There was more drilling to finish off the holes, then I spent some time on tweaking the flanges and ensuring they were straight and square. There wasn’t much today to take pictures of and all of these processes have been previously […]
Left Wing Fuel Tank Wrap-up
Good day, today I’m going to update you with the last little bit of work I did to finish up the left wing fuel tank. But before we get into that, there was some holiday updates that happened first. Most significantly was that my dad came for a 2 week visit. While we did get […]
More Fuel Sender Work
Good day, today I’m continuing to work on the fuel sending units. Part of finishing off the installation of the sender plates, was that I needed to install the anti-hang up brackets in the root rib bay for the flop tube. While doing this, I also needed to make sure that the flop tube didn’t […]
Capacitance Fuel Sender Isolators
Good day, today I’m continuing with making the isolators for the capacitance fuel sender system. These isolators are made from 1-inch Delrin rod. You need 3 isolator assemblies per sender plate – in total you’ll need 12 isolator assemblies. The Van’s OP-7 drawing shows using Delrin “washers / spacers” of 1/8-inch thickness. With one assembly […]