REFLECTOR: what kind of foam

[Craig and Denise Woolston]

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