{"id":12862,"date":"2017-03-28T19:26:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T18:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12862"},"modified":"2017-03-28T19:46:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T18:46:19","slug":"ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/ha\/","title":{"rendered":"Ha!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m typing this feeling quietly pleased about the latest incarnation of my fuel pumping rig. While I’m waiting for the second pump to arrive from China, which will take at least two or three weeks, I thought that I’d nip up to Rafaillac, the car parts store in Boullazac, and get hold of the parts that I’ll need to fit it when it arrives.<\/p>\n

I thought that that would also give me the chance to modify the set up by removing the redundant hand priming bulb and investigate making it mobile using the old fishing trolley that I used to use for taking fuel and tools onto the airfield at Linton when it was closed to vehicles and brought over with me from England.<\/p>\n

By the time I got back with a metre of 8mm fuel hose, some small hose clips and a couple of plastic ‘Ts’ it was mid-afternoon, but as the weather was so pleasant (around 20 degrees with broken sunshine) I got cracking straight away looking at the mobility problem. The first thing that I had to do though, was pump the trolley’s tyres up, which were completely flat after all this time, and then I considered how I might go about modifying it to take my fuel rig.<\/p>\n

And I was delighted to find that in fact I didn’t have to! All I had to do was firmly mount the fuel rig on it using ever-trusty cable ties and the result was just what the doctor ordered! Judge for yourself by taking a look at the following pics – first of all without a jerrican in place.<\/p>\n

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Now with a jerrican in position and ready to pump gas!<\/p>\n

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The set up will be fine to use as is until the second pump arrives and then I’ll change the design so both pumps are mounted horizontally rather than vertically. I’ll also consider ways of stowing the fuel delivery hose and power cable then as well, as I can easily use the rig as it is in the meantime.<\/p>\n

All I’ll need to do is find ways of keeping insects and muck out of the inlet tube and fuel delivery pipe and the whole thing clean, as it’ll be standing in the hangar, but I don’t think that that should be too taxing \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m typing this feeling quietly pleased about the latest incarnation of my fuel pumping rig. While I’m waiting for the second pump to arrive from China, which will take at least two or three weeks, I thought that I’d nip up to Rafaillac, the car parts store in Boullazac, and get hold of the parts … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12862"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12873,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862\/revisions\/12873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}