About the helicopter--I should have told you that the fuel tanks are in a vertical configuration and when half empty there is no more gravity feed. Because I could carry only 360 lbs. and most hops were short I usually never had the tanks more than half full. >From Miles mnk at q.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phillip Hill" <phill.hill at gmail.com> To: "KRnet" <krnet at list.krnet.org> Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 2:42 PM Subject: Re: KR> KRnet Digest, Vol 2, Issue 35
> Nothing wrong with that. I'm not a fan of check valves. The less parts > the better. > > > On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Douglas Cooke <dbcrn at hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Maybe I'm missing something, but why not a mechanical pump with a >> parallel >> bypass containing a one way valve the electric pump located upstream from >> both the >> mechanical pump and valve? >> That way the electric just bypasses the mechanical pump and the >> mechanical >> pump >> won't pump back to the tank(s). >> >> "I did a little checking and you can't push fuel through the VW >> mechanical pump >> so a backup system would entail, at minimum, a couple check valves and >> an electric pump...a bit more complicated that I care to make it." >> _______________________________________________ >> Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. >> To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org >> please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >> see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change >> options >> > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options
