X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.194] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4c2a) with ESMTP id 4834761 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:32:43 -0500 Received-SPF: error receiver=logan.com; client-ip=74.208.4.194; envelope-from=patrick@hoffmann1.net Received: from [192.168.1.82] (99-116-27-117.lightspeed.cicril.sbcglobal.net [99.116.27.117]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0M3hpB-1Q2DVA2Fu5-00r4Jq; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:32:02 -0500 Message-ID: <4D4897F0.2060603@hoffmann1.net> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:32:00 -0600 From: Patrick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101123 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Al Tubing in fuel line... References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:w77Kda3ckZMEBnIaiATYhPb5/ceHEP9iuZUeXp3qqAE agKRgBDH3vFi9q+dGkskWpqNKr/TbfY1uRMOw4O9MFnMtC8EMK /i+PKc5WYrTeax4hn263colvfFP7wqGPFOvnCqHwdzWi6uOUzz 1EIf8lnfnulO9MamEiLTELOYl+QvfcOdjfLeHiSEKbtSSyhylS TDN2be9pm2+SIOORvps96QrhkVmy3juYop+7BjVGHw= Yeah, I try to avoid rubber fuel lines too. Stainless braid, silicone, fire-sleeved line; call me picky. And hopefully your firewall is not plastic...! Ernest Christley wrote: > Patrick wrote: >> Bill, >> I would suggest taking a propane torch to a piece of scrap aluminum >> (beer can) and a piece of stainless. It may affect your comfort >> level about aluminum in the engine compartment. >> >> Personally, I would never use aluminum fuel line in front of the >> firewall. >> >> Patrick > If you're going to do that, you might as well include those rubbery > pieces of fuel line in the test. And remember, you're telling that to > a guy who has the engine mounted to a plastic airplane 8*) > > -- > Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > Archive and UnSub: > http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html