Hi Group,
I can confirm that my non-fluorinated tank swelled and cracked. Removing
the
tank, I learned to my surprise that the HDPE material had become very
brittle. That was not the case when I installed the fuel level sensor.
Before buying a new fluorinated tank from Europa, I searched the net for
information about HDPE tanks used in cars. What I found was that these
tanks
were fluorinated and in addition given a final inside layer of nylon to
become 100% tight. I decided therefore not to buy a new tank from
Europa,
but instead build an aluminium tank.
Best regards
Arnold Kr. Hansen
Europa XS LN ABM
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Sendt: 27. mars 2014 17:09
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Emne: Re: Europa-List: Re: XS Fuel Tank Kiwi Mod
...and whether they have been post-florinated/treated beyond the
factory's
treatment :-)
I thought the only change the factory made was to start florinating in
the
late 90's. I can only imagine that the original non-florinated tanks
must
have swollen up like balloons.
cheers,
Pete
A239
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Fred Klein <fklein@orcasonline.com>
wrote:
On Mar 27, 2014, at 3:38 AM, Pete Lawless <pete@lawless.info> wrote:
given that the original Europa supplied tanks were known to have been
made
of the 'wrong material' are Europa continuing to make tanks from the
same
'wrong material' or are the newly supplied tanks made of something
different. It may be that Europa are still working their way through a
large original batch.
Anyone know?
I certainly do not =93know=94, but it has been my understanding that at
some
point Europa changed from the original lo-density material to a
hi-density
material=85can anyone can confirm that?
Apropos to this thread, it would seem to be of value if we could track
the
kit numbers and the accumulated flight times of those tanks which have
failed, as well as any other aspects of the failures which may seem
pertinent such as ambient temperatures, long-term storage while empty,
etc.
Fred
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