REFLECTOR: what kind of foam

[Jeff Clough]

Careful using water!!! I had a leak that I used water to detect, but the 
water came out all under the backseat floorboards....I had to drill a 
LOT of holes and apply vacuum to get it all out......I felt that in 
freezing weather water would cause severe delamination if any was left 
behind (I was living in Alaska at the time)
~ jc ~

Craig and Denise Woolston wrote:
> Doug-
>
>   I know from firsthand experience how frustrating fuel leaks are.  We had
> one strake that was fine and another that took us four months to fix and
> this was after we were flying.  Our fuel leak came out of the hole in the
> fuselage where the gear fixed gear leg passes through.  We scratch our head
> for days as to how it could travel a foot from the fuel tank.  In the end it
> was the hole for the fittings that are drilled through the fuselage wall.
> The threads cut through the glass allowed fuel to enter into the layers of
> glass of the fuselage skin, then migrate down and out.  We could not locate
> this source until we cut a hole in the top of the strake, filled the strake
> with water and using a air gun, blew air back into tank and looked for
> bubbles. 
>
>
> Craig
> N541SW
>
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