Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 21:52:54 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from imo-d04.mx.aol.com ([205.188.157.36] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1) with ESMTP id 2516828 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 21:09:46 -0400 Received: from Sky2high@aol.com by imo-d04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r1.1.) id q.109.26748a42 (3842) for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 21:09:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Sky2high@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: <109.26748a42.2c6846d4@aol.com> X-Original-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 21:09:40 EDT Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Fuel tank testing X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1060564180" X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 580 -------------------------------1060564180 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The fun of an inadvertent test. After my wings were painted at the auto body shop, the painter needed space and moved the wings out into the sun. Later, that evening, it was time to move the wings back to the hangar and one (still warm from the sun) was loaded into a long van. As we were driving back to my hangar, I glanced back over the wing and cried, "Jack, these bulges look terrible after everything was so carefully filled and sanded." Then, through teary eyes, I remembered - and pulled the golf tee from the fuel vent -- Psssssssht was heard as the excessive air pressure was vented out. "Whew!" I exclaimed, as the wing returned to its normal beautiful shape. I said, "Well, I know it won't be leaking any fuel." The other wing was the same and I will never know the total pressure that was exerted, but the wing held together - before the "invention" of cap strips, it is held by a mere 5/8 inch rib-to-wing bonding. It's still holding together. Sand, Clean Clean Bond! Scott Krueger Sky2high@aol.com LNC2 N92EX IO320 Aurora, IL (KARR) -------------------------------1060564180 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

The fun of an inadvertent test.

After my wings were painted at the auto body shop, the painter ne= eded space and moved the wings out into the sun. Later, that evening,=20= it was time to move the wings back to the hangar and one (still warm from th= e sun) was loaded into a long van. As we were driving back to my=20= hangar, I glanced back over the wing and cried, "Jack, these bulges look ter= rible after everything was so carefully filled and sanded." Then, thro= ugh teary eyes, I remembered - and pulled the golf tee from the fuel ve= nt -- Psssssssht was heard as the excessive air pressure was vented out.&nbs= p; "Whew!" I exclaimed, as the wing returned to its normal beautiful shape.&= nbsp; I said, "Well, I know it won't be leaking any fuel." The o= ther wing was the same and I will never know the total pressure that wa= s exerted, but the wing held together - before the "invention" of cap strips= , it is held by a mere 5/8 inch rib-to-wing bonding. It's still h= olding together.

Sand,

Clean

Bond!

Scott Krueger
Sky2high@aol.com
LNC2 N92EX IO320 Aurora, IL (KARR)

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