REFLECTOR: Jeffco

Alex Balic velocity_pilot at verizon.net
Sat Nov 1 20:50:06 CDT 2008


Anyone out there have some unused Jeffco they might be able to part with? I
had some left over from my tanks but gave it away last year to someone
needing some, and now I am in the same boat- I was working on getting my
engine running, filled up the sump a couple of weeks ago, and noticed that I
had a slight leak around my fuel sensor- I over tightened it and it broke,
so I removed the sump and extracted the treaded piece from the bung, but I
just happed to notice what looked like some cloth just inside the hole, I
should not have been there, so I probed it and it was not hard, so I got an
o-ring pick on it and pulled it partially up through the hole- not a good
thing to see some softened epoxy coated cloth in my sump, so I opened the
tank up with my air saw, and found that everything that had be constructed
from the non- structural epoxy ( the aluminum inserts for the hard points
were put in with that per the manual) and since I had the epoxy left, I used
it to put 2 layers bid over them inside- anyway, the slurry that I used to
set the hard points was the consistency of stale cheese, and the 2 bid cover
lay-ups were soft- so I pulled everything out, and ground it down and re-set
the hard points with JB weld which I know is fuel proof- but I need some
jeffco to re-coat the inside and to use to seal the back to the front again-
anyone out there have a pint or so to spare, please let me  know- BTW I was
using MO-Gas, but even with the ethanol, not sure why that epoxy softened
like that- good thing I used 100% jeffco on the main tanks to make
everything, but I will keep an eye on that after fueling them.




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