There's room on a Super Rebel. I now wish I had put in two outlets but I
just put in one where Murphy indicated. Murphy did "move" the position of
the one outlet from it's original location in a builder's note I ran across
somewhere on their website. Originally, they had the outlet near the back
of the tank. The new location is about a third of the way forward from that
position. Low fuel in a descent probably could un-port that outlet. I
guess I will have to not allow a low fuel situation to occur. I know I
won't take off with low fuel because I need over 15 gallons in my tank
before I can even see it in my sight tube. I won't be taking off if I can't
see fuel in the sight tube.
Mike
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From:
mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:
mike.davis@dcsol.com] On Behalf Of Tim
Hickey
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 6:59 PM
To:
rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: Re: [rebel-builders] Fuel Tank
Hello, All
First a brief update on my status as a Rebel Builder. I have received a
windshield, and have had contact with the factory as it seems that they are
in the process of totaling the bill and getting the box filled with the kit
for shipping. I would expect that come sometime late Feb I will have a kit
and will start bugging all of you experienced builders about the standard
problems. I have been reading this group for about 9 months, now, and I have
tried to keep notes about the issues that most builders have. I guess we
will just have to wait and see how construction goes.
I have re-designed the table recommended by Murphy a bit. I have (will) make
it in two separate tables each 48 x 96. That way, when I am done I can take
it apart and have two work benches/tables instead of one long one. Plus I
have decided to make the table top at 37 inches from the floor. This may be
too tall for working on the Fuselage, but it would seem to be better to have
it taller when working on everything else. When I get to the fuselage if I
feel that the table is too tall, I will cut the legs off 6 inches or so.
Now I have a question for the collective experience out there. Charlie
Eubanks introduced it, and so far no one has offered an opinion about it.
Here are his words..
My previous project was a Glastar and because of its folding wing feature it
only has one fuel outlet per wing tank. The fuel capacity was 33 Gal. with
only 27 Gal. useable. In a descending glide with only 3 Gal's remaining in
each tank the fuel lines could un-port long enough to create temporary
fuel
starvation. This problem finally became un-acceptable and Glastar's
solution
was to add a small vented header tank in series and just down stream of
each
wing tank. The header tank had sufficient fuel capacity to keep the engine
running until the nose was raised and the port would close and
re-establish
fuel supply.
Since the Rebel also has only one fuel outlet port per tank, I wondered if
anyone has ever had a similar problem? If so what was the solution?
Any thought anyone? It would seem that adding a additional fuel port more
towards the front of the tank could provide a fuel supply in the case of a
nose low decent with low fuel.
Is there room in the wing root area to do this?
Thanks.
Tim Hickey
2658 300th St
Montrose, Iowa 52639
Home 319 463-7047
Cell 319 795-2684
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