October 23, 2005

Continuing on with the fuel lines… These were a right royal pain in the arse! I got my order through from Aircraft Spruce which had some more fuel line in there the other day, so I could do the right side line. As it happened, I ruined the left one todat trying to bend it through the holes in the side of the plane, so ended up makig another one. Arrrgh!

Here I have got both lines in at the fuel selector end.

The other side. I also recapped the unused portion of the valve.

Now it’s all in there, time to safety wire the banjo fittings. We don’t want those coming loose!

Here’s the pipe coming out of the right side of the plane. I made the holes with a fly cutter. I’ve yet to find a better way to cut holes upwards of 3/4" in diameter. Greenlee punches are fairly useless in my opinion, as they often suck in the material into the punch and make a right mess of the hole. I have some Rotabroaches too, they’re good, but I’ve only got up to 3/4" for those too. I want a set that can do bigger, but I want a 1" size in there too. All the ones I’ve seen so far are much bigger than an inch.