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Posted for "Lloyd Dunlap" <ldunlap181639MI@comcast.net>:
To all who used hysol on their wings....
My 360 at 8 years old and 300 TT developed a fuel leak in the left wing last
week so I brought home a nice 6mm borescope this weekend to take a look around
and I am not very#$%^&*()_happy with the results...I have the fuel bridged
between the BL99 & BL104 ribs for long tanks so some of the pics attached are
from each rib. The leak appeared to be coming from between these ribs as it
was leaking out the inspection panel for the aileron belcrank. Inside the wing
I found MUCH deterioration in the way of cracking and flaking of the hysol
joint "squeeze" between the bottom skin and ribs etc. It seems that hysol is
not to be used around "some" fuels. Yes that orange - red stuff (that used to
be blue-green) is really the hysol ! Also note the amount of debris floating
around...yes that gives me a warm fuzzy how about you ? So yes my flying
season is over for ??? or till I can find some pygmies to put inside my wing.
I was thinking about selling my plane and moving up but suddenly ALL OUR
LANCAIRS might not be worth quite as much as we thought ????????????????? I
have been mixing 100LL with premium auto fuel 50% / 50 % for its entire life.
Does anyone have a plane this old that has NEVER had any auto fuel in it ? I
would sure like to look in the wings....
Lloyd Dunlap
N214MM
LCN2-360 300TT
810-217-3407 cell
810-225-9113 home
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