REFLECTOR: Floaters

[Jim Agnew]

With only two bulkheads what is going to provide the fore-aft & crushing strength to prevent the strakes from collapsing???  Remember, they carry the spar load and the weight of anything on top of the strake.
 
James F. Agnew
Jim_Agnew_2 at Yahoo.Com
Tampa, FL
Velocity 173 Elite Aircraft Completed & Flying 



----- Original Message ----
From: Douglas Holub <doug.holub at tx.rr.com>
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list <reflector at tvbf.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 10:01:17 AM
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Floaters


Thanks for the info. I found the red balls at www.fletchair.com. The new part number is 401129-5. It's in section 28 of their online catalog. Below it in the catalog is a seal with a hole in it (called "U-cup seal for AA1 fuel gauge") which might work well to keep the ball in the tube.
 
I hope to install my sight gauges next week. Attached is a picture of my fuel tank. I wanted to keep it simple so that it would be easy to seal. So I have only two fuel bulkheads, and I used 1" foam instead of 3/8" foam so that there would be plenty of room for lots of goop on the top edge.
 
Doug Holub
----- Original Message ----- 
From: David Staten 
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list 
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Floaters


Fletcher's and Fletchair were bought by Wilson a year or two again. The number should work, but googling for fletcher's may be a dead end. 
I'd met mister Fletcher several times in the past, and admired him for keepin the business up even into his 80's. 

Dave

PUSHERPILOT at wmconnect.com wrote: 
Chuck, 
I found the info on where I bought the red fuel balls: 

Fletchair, Inc 
9000 Randolph St 
Houston, TX 77061 
713  641- 2023 

Part No 5407 4001 4097 0757 
AA1 Fuel Float Ball 

I think that these are for a Grumman A/C 

This info is seven years old, but you can give it a try.  I installed wires to keep the ball from going out the top or bottom. 

Good Luck, 
Mel Bina 
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