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[rebel-builders] Re: Moose wreck; no one hurt

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Ken

[rebel-builders] Re: Moose wreck; no one hurt

Post by Ken » Sun Feb 19, 2012 10:53 am

Yup Ted you did good on the decision that really really mattered.

Interesting that everyone seems to accept the necessity of taking off
with both main tank fuel valves on even if one tank is empty. We had
another discussion on that a few weeks ago at the last Brampton meeting
but the Rebel only uses -6 plumbing. I had thought that the big machine
used -8 plumbing and that might make it more forgiving about this but I
guess not ? On automobiles these type of fuel issues pretty much went
away when they started bleeding vapour (and some fuel) from the carb
back to the tank. My 82 K car did that with a bleed off the filter next
to the carb. A well located vented header tank or a vented fuel strainer
would also be effective I think. I was surprised that returnless EFI
works so well but the high pressure seems to keep the vapour suppressed.

One probably doesn't want a situation where a header has enough fuel to
warm up and get airborne while the main fuel is off. My only
outstanding fuel issue is that my red and green flashing header low fuel
light is not very attention getting in sunlight so I should wire in an
audio alert or move it to the main instrument cluster.

Ken

rbesecker@dcsol.com wrote:
Sorry to hear the news, but remember...machines are replaceable, people
aren't. Thanks for the pics and the honest recount of what happened...a new
asterisk goes in my personal checklist.

Get it back together...you're still closer to completion than I am!

Rick Besecker

Murphy SR2500 178SR-1




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Jesse Jenks

[rebel-builders] Re: Moose wreck; no one hurt

Post by Jesse Jenks » Sun Feb 19, 2012 10:53 am

I'll join in too. It made my heart sink to see the photos of your Moose Ted.
So sorry. Glad you plan to rebuild.

Does the Moose use 2 seperate shutoff valves in the wing roots like the
Rebel? If so, this incident might be a good argument for a single selector
valve in front of the pilot. I know some have already done this. I plan to
use the Andair. You could still forget to select BOTH before takeoff, but at
least it would be more in your scan.
Jesse
From: Ken <klehman@albedo.net>
Reply-To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: Re: [rebel-builders] Re: Moose wreck; no one hurt
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:16:56 -0400

Yup Ted you did good on the decision that really really mattered.

Interesting that everyone seems to accept the necessity of taking off
with both main tank fuel valves on even if one tank is empty. We had
another discussion on that a few weeks ago at the last Brampton meeting
but the Rebel only uses -6 plumbing. I had thought that the big machine
used -8 plumbing and that might make it more forgiving about this but I
guess not ? On automobiles these type of fuel issues pretty much went
away when they started bleeding vapour (and some fuel) from the carb
back to the tank. My 82 K car did that with a bleed off the filter next
to the carb. A well located vented header tank or a vented fuel strainer
would also be effective I think. I was surprised that returnless EFI
works so well but the high pressure seems to keep the vapour suppressed.

One probably doesn't want a situation where a header has enough fuel to
warm up and get airborne while the main fuel is off. My only
outstanding fuel issue is that my red and green flashing header low fuel
light is not very attention getting in sunlight so I should wire in an
audio alert or move it to the main instrument cluster.

Ken

rbesecker@dcsol.com wrote:
Sorry to hear the news, but remember...machines are replaceable, people
aren't. Thanks for the pics and the honest recount of what happened...a
new
asterisk goes in my personal checklist.

Get it back together...you're still closer to completion than I am!

Rick Besecker

Murphy SR2500 178SR-1




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