REFLECTOR: Jeffco

[Douglas Holub]

Alex,

You can have the rest of mine. My son's a freshman at UNT and he's home for 
the weekend. If you want I could send it back with him and you could pick it 
up at his dorm. You're still at Denton Municipal, aren't you?

Doug Holub
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Balic" <velocity_pilot at verizon.net>
To: "'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list'" <reflector at tvbf.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 7:50 PM
Subject: REFLECTOR: Jeffco


> 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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