Lee, once again, great idea but not legal at this time. Those who can't afford it should not fly dangerously, period. Those that do not only endanger their own lives, but lives of those on the ground as well as affecting the lives of those who will grieve with pain. I won't talk about what it does to the GA community and how much extra it costs us in insurance as we have to pay money for idiots to make foolish decisions. No one should play Aviation Russian Roulette. Not sure about anyone else out there, but my life is worth more than a few hundred bucks.
Al DeMarzo Visit the Ercoupe Swap Page - Free and Easy http://www.ercoupeowners.com/swap/swapbook.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:23 PM Subject: RE: [ercoupe-tech] Tank cleaning Apparantly some are not connected to the front end of this issue as STC and 337s have already been discussed. Also, not everyone has the funds to remove, disassemble, clean, and reassemble the tanks and some who may have the funds may not do it anyway. Also a 3-4 inch finger filter won't clog in a very long time. They are on auto fuel pumps in the tank and some last the life of the fuel pump without becoming clogged with the contaminates in auto fuel. Lee -- WILLIAM BIGGS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not legal unless it has FAA-PMA and or STC approval. What needs to be done is to FIX THE PROBLEM, not the symptom. Especially something as serious as fuel flow. Put on a finer mesh filter and it is going to clog sooner. If you have trash in the gas, find the source and eliminate it. Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:13:23 -0400 Subject: Re: [ercoupe-tech] Tank cleaning Is it legal to use a paper gas filter housed in a clear plastic housing, as often found in an "impulse-buy" display next to the cash register at a car parts store? I used one of those on my VW bus for 26 years and had one on my lawn mower. The real point being is that if one adds a filter to screen out bits of brown crud (old frothingslosh??) and one cannot readily see the filtering element and one also has a brown crud problem, how does one know when it's really loaded and about to starve the engine? Jim Brennan NC93963 WST / RI (and I think that, before encountering this group, this may have been done to one of my wing tanks by a shop in New Hampshire) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook - together at last. Get it now! _____________________________________________________________ Make big money trading currency. Click here for more information.
