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Stevens Web Site
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Date: 1-28-2006
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Number of Hours: 1.00
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Brief Description: Fabricated fuel pickup and tank vent line
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I began the day by participating in the "Annual Party" for N83781L, the Cessna Skyhawk I own with 4 other guys. Each year, we do an owner assisted annual and we schedule a "party" for everyone to ready the plane (we call her Princess) for the mechanic. Then the mechanic arrives and inspects the plane for a reduced rate. After he is finished, we button Princess up. The photograph is of Steve, the mechanic (on the ladder) Frank Settle, me and Dave Posey. Princess came through with flying colors. The engine (whose case has not been cracked since 1968) has execllent compression. It drives my friend Jim Anderson crazy that our engine has done so well even though it is almost 40 years old.While I was at the EAA Chapter 690 hanger, I checked out the tube flaring tool and the line bending tool from the Chapter 690 tool crib. I began by flaring the left fuel tank vent line so that it can hook up with the vent fitting in the last (inboard ) rib for the left fuel tank. I then bent the large fuel line for the fuel pickup as depicted in the plans. The bending went ok with the bending tool, but the flaring was a little rocky. First, I flared the fuel line before fitting the AN hardware fittings on. I had to cut off the flare to that I could put the fittings on first. Then, I flared it again, only to find that I put the fittings on backwards. Only after making every possible permutation of a screw up, did I finally get it right. the photograph shows the final product. It is hard to see from the picture, but the end of the fuel pickup is crimped closed and there are saw cust on the top of the line for the fuel to be strained and then go into the pickup line.
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Princess's Annual Party
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Left tank fuel pickup
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