{"id":1421,"date":"2010-04-03T22:27:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T22:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2010-04-03T22:27:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T22:27:19","slug":"tanked-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/tanked-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanked up"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a fine flying day today on Good Friday here in the South East, despite what the forecast originally predicted. We had a couple of showery bursts first thing this morning but these cleared away and the rest of the day was fine and dry, albeit a little chilly. So that gave me the chance to finish the installation of the auxiliary tank. As I said last time, the tanks are connected via a ‘T’ piece in the water test drain in the main tank, and here’s a pic showing how the connection I put in ended up looking.<\/p>\n

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Quite neat I thought – I’m very pleased with it \ud83d\ude42 Here’s a pic of the corresponding connection into the bottom of the auxiliary tank.<\/p>\n

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I had to finish threading the two vertical suspension straps around the seat frame today and after I’d done that I was able to drop the tank into position in the four webbing straps that support it and hold it in position. This is how it then looked.<\/p>\n

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By this time the job was almost done, but not quite. The main tank has a breather that exits the fuselage under the wing on the passenger side and obviously the auxiliary tank has to have a breather too. It came with a long transparent plastic pipe for this purpose and I decided the neatest way to do it was to connect it into the main tank’s breather using a plastic ‘T’ piece. It worked very well and looked quite neat, as you can see below.<\/p>\n

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Finally, here’s the finished job. <\/p>\n

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With the outer sections of the belts repositioned on both sides so they passed over the tops of the tanks, in the end it looked a pretty good job. It’s a pity that the slits that had previously been cut in the pilot seat cover to take the straps for an auxiliary tank are a bit untidy. I’ll have to see whether I can make them a bit neater somehow \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a fine flying day today on Good Friday here in the South East, despite what the forecast originally predicted. We had a couple of showery bursts first thing this morning but these cleared away and the rest of the day was fine and dry, albeit a little chilly. So that gave me the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","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\/1421","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=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}