Another Kiss driver here at Mason Jewett Airport has debris in tanks, do not know the extent but he is cutting the tanks open now to find out, already borescoped them and was not happy, nice aircraft, nice guy one of our very active members EAA Chapter 55. David R Cook RV6A ROTARY.
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From: "Al Gietzen" <ALVentures@cox.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:55:57 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [FlyRotary] KIS epoxy type
Bill;
The current issue of Contact! magazine has an article regarding serious damage to the epoxy fuel tanks on a KIS that the author (Larry David) concluded was the result of using 10% ethanol fuel. He didn’t specify what type of epoxy was used, and his response to my e-mail to him was that he did not build the plane and didn’t know what epoxy was specified for the KIS.
It is of interest since Chris, our rotary powered Velocity friend, had a similar nightmare with his fuel tanks. Thought maybe you’d know. In Chris’s case it was Jeffco coating over EZ-poxy that peeled off. In this case it was ‘whatever’ epoxy coating over ‘whatever’ epoxy; and the fillets under the coating, and the wing spar were also damaged. Perhaps you are familiar with the case.
Al G