Well, unfortunately!!    :>)

Bill B

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From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Patrick
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 6:32 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Al Tubing in fuel line...

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*)
>
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