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From: "bobjude" <bobjude@gateway.net>
To: "Lancair Mail List" <lancair.list@olsusa.com>
Subject: Grounding the fuel filler
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 07:12:19 -0600
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Hey Curtis Krouse, you are WRONG.  I have been filling the un-grounded caps
on my 320 for six years and I'm not dead yet.  How is that for logic?

Seriously though, we all know that you can accumulate a charge on
non-conducting material.  A balloon rubbed on wool for example.  What you
have to realize is that any material has some conductivity, even though it
may be many megohms of resistance.  The particular situation with our
fiberglass airplanes has not proven to be a problem and most likely never
will.  I have always been aware of a potential problem so my standard
procedure when refueling is to remove the fuel cap and touch the filler ring
with one hand while holding the nozzle with the other hand.  I have never
felt an electrical discharge of any kind and expect that I never will.

Curtis, me thinks you worry too much.


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