Message-ID: <19981218084726.25961.qmail@www05.netaddress.usa.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 08:47:26
From: Dan Schaefer <dfschaefer@usa.net>
To: lancair.list@olsusa.com
Subject: Static line water trap
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Some very interesting info in the last LML from Ed de Chazal regarding his 
water trap in the static line. I'm not sure where the ports are on later 
models, but in the 235 (early) they were positioned so as to penetrate 
just aft of the baggage bulkhead and just below the hat shelf. I had 
run a line from each horizontally to a tee at about the same level and 
then brought the line to the instruments down to the tunnel and forward. 
Obviously, the water was sitting in those horizontal sections of line 
(1/4" tubing) and with the motions of taxi and take off, it eventually all 
ran into the tee and down the the line going forward.

My plan now is to change the tee to a four-way fitting, or "X", re-route 
the horizontal sections of tubing coming from the ports to slope upward 
a bit to it. On the lower outlet of the "X", add about a 12 inch length 
of tubing routed straight down, with the bottom sealed, as a trap and route 
the instrument line going forward so that it comes off the upper outlet 
of the "X" and runs vertically for a few inches before turning down 
to go thru the tunnel. Will probably have to put a drain on the trap but 
I'll work that out as I go along.

The only thing better, if there is one, about this rig over Ed's is I 
won't have to figure out how to bond anything to the plastic used in the 
various pill bottles.

Cheers,

Dan Schaefer
N235SP


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