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Good point! You could have a fuel slosh door stuck shut by Hysol.  If the
tank is empty, I can not hear the slosh doors banging, but with fuel in the
tank, I can hear them if I shake the plane.

B2
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From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of John
Barrett
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 3:52 PM
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Subject: [LML] Re: Fuel vol correction

Sounds like you have some inaccessible bays in your wing or wings.  Could be
you have more fuel in the wing but some can't get out or a bay could be
plugged totally and only have air.  Either way it's not good. Likely happens
from too much Hysol at wing closure.  Can you get a scope to check the ports
inside the wing?  Would be good to have access to a fuel bouser to pump fuel
into and later pump it back in 5 gallons at a time to re calibrate once you
get things figured out and ports cleaned out if needed.


Good luck,
John Barrett

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On Jul 19, 2013, at 4:22 AM, Charles Brown <browncc1@verizon.net> wrote:

> I may have provided some bad info in the past.  I stated that the fuel vol
in my wing tanks was 37 gal per side; attributing the extra to the complete
absence of speed brake provisions.  However, I just got around to exhausting
a fuel tank in flight, and refilled it with 34 gallons.  Of the many
possible variables, the one that seems most dubious is the accuracy of the
1/2 gallon measuring cup that was the basis for the original calibration.
I"m still sorting through this one.
> 
> Charley Brown
> Legacy 275 hr
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