Category: Fuel Tanks

The fuel tanks begin just like most other sections… with a whole lot of edge deburring! There were also some stiffeners and brackets to cut

Today marked the first day of actual construction progress on the fuel tanks. I began by clecoing the ribs into the skin. This is much

After seeing what the standard fuel caps that Van’s includes in the kit, and because I want to keep strangers from messing with my fuel

Tonight I got the rear baffles in place, match drilled, and countersunk. These are counter sunk as opposed to dimpled to make it easier to

There are two options for fuel level sensors that I looked at for my -10. First is the standard float type sensor. It’s basically a

Using the first capacitive plate as a template for the remaining ones, I got everything cut to shape and riveted to it’s mounting hardware. All

Long day, short post. I got all the holes in all the fuel tank parts deburred. 9 hours worth. Days like this make the TV

Got started on dimpling the tank parts tonight. I actually made pretty good progress, as I got all the non skin parts dimpled, and the

Got the tank skins dimpled tonight. I dimpled all the holes I could reach with the pneumatic squeezer the other day, but the majority of

Ok. Black death might be a bit melodramatic, but Proseal can be a sticky mess. Cory came over today and helped me with the fuel

Tonight was round two with the proseal. I didn’t have much time to work on the plane tonight, but I wanted to get the rib

Tonight I finished up riveting and prosealing up the various parts of the end ribs of the fuel tanks… both the various fittings and the

I did my first bit of true tank assembly tonight. I got six stiffeners, a drain port, and some nut plates and a cover plate

Got some more QT in with ProSeal. I got the rest of the stiffeners sealed to the tank. This time, I’m sealing the stiffeners up,

More of the same. I prosealed all of the stiffeners and flanges to the left tank skins.