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gccole13(at)btinternet.co
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:24 am Post subject: Completed monowheel airframe for sale (JR Gowing)

Hi Bob,

    You are a couple of years older than me and have broken what I thought was the longest 

build-time record.



    The Lyndhurst fuel level indicator is now part of Europa's mod 60 Kit for fitting to the 

Europa fuel tank. It is supplied by Lyndhurst - Touchdown - Services Ltd 

(www.avnet.co.uk/touchdown) to the precise length specified by the buyer. I bought mine  from 

Touchdown before mod 60 appeared.

    The sensor is a sealed stainless steel tube housing 8 reed switches. These are activated by 

an external magnetic ring float. My mod 10710 has this sensor assembly housed in a 

precision-made fibreglass tube, flanged at the top and sealed at the bottom with an embedded 

boss holding a 90 deg inlet pipe fitting. A thick machined aluminium ring at the top carries the 

outlet pipe fitting. The unit is inserted in to the left hand vent line and is mounted on a 

substantial bracket reduxed to the forward baggage bay bulkhead just behind the fuel tank (  the 

mod 74 lift-pin crosstube passes between my unit and the bulkhead with a small clearance).  It 

took two attempts and a complex jig to get the fibre glass tube right and then six months to 

clear the mod with our PFA (now LAA). I also had to do the pressure test specified in JAR-VLA 

965 - equivalent to an eleven foot head of fuel. The main advantage is, being translucent, it is 

possible to see the fuel level  in the tube in your pre-flight ckecks and you have a proper 

contents indicator on the panel.

    If you would like more detail (and several week's work!), please contact me off list and I 

will be pleased to help.



Sincerely

Gerry Cole, kit 121



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jrgowing(at)bigpond.net.a
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:51 pm Post subject: Completed monowheel airframe for sale (JR Gowing)

Dear Gerry

Thank you for your detailed reply but yes I rember I had aheard of the gauge 

but thought it was to be installed within the tank and I did not want to cut 

into the tank.



And thank you also for your reply to Ferg and Craig.



Just as I got my kit in 1996 I had to spend 3 yrs building a new front on 

the house we had just moved into. Add some urgently needed jobs in Rotary 

Club, and then as you Gerry, would know, and Josok may not, there was 

1000hrs work on the fin, rudder wings and tailplanes that is now already 

done in the kit.



Thank you Josok for your thoughts about getting assistance; I am only too 

aware now that time is running out.



I hope to finish filling the flying pieces in the next couple of weeks 

(using depth strings, and a roller over clear plastic to squeeze the filler 

to level, as suggested by Kingsley Hurst) and add the fillets.



Now thanks to Josok's arguments I will have asssistance with completing the 

filling on the fuselage and to spray the primer-filling . My son-in-law will 

build a David Watts type trailer.



And yes there is a great lot more to think about!



JR (Bob) Gowing UK kit 327 in Oz



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