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the casters were handy but the real pain is always filling up the drum. if it stays on the trailer it's a breeze. gravity was a thought but you get back to a relative ''ton of work'' [dinking around]. i also have looked into air pressure but a lot more complicated and we all know what a little too much pressure can do to a flat walled tank.
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Make sure you are in compliance with airport rules. There are many airports , public and private, that prohibit the storage of fuel outside of the plane in the hanger and they also prohibit fueling the plane inside the hanger.
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alternative fueling apparatus
a couple of guys at Coastal in Pensacola used beer kegs out of the back of their van. tapped the keg to add a Schrader valve and used a 12 volt plug in air compressor. not sure I'd recommend it, but it worked for them for many years.
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Been looking into this for quite awhile now.
Looking all over Craigslist and here and there. Have settled on having a 110 gallon aluminum tank built to put under the side of my cube van. Make a door in the side of the van to access the pump and hose that would be in the box of the van. build an enclosure inside van box for hose/pump. Fill hole like factory in side of van. Vent up front of box. Fill-Rite RD series pump sitting on floor of box. Anti spill rollover valve $14.00 on vent. Tank cost $750.00 Pump from Amazon $253.00 20 foot grounded hose Amazon $42.00 Ground reel with 50 foot line. $44.00 I'm sure I will spend a bit more when done. But hey avgas ain't cheap and the difference will be made up soon. It could cost a lot less if you bought a used transfer tank and put it in the back of your truck. Piece of mind and no regulations to deal with. My airport does not allow fuel storage in rental hanger. A whole lot better cause now I can get fuel to my lawn mower at home also. Ya it'll be premium but mowers like that stuff also. My two cents worth but I'm tired of digging lead out of spark plugs and it's proven gas engines don't need lead to last a long time. |
Boat tank
I used a 30 gallon plastic West Marine boat tank in the bed of my pick-up. Since head pressure was about the same, I used a couple of PSI from a small 5 gallon air bottle to pressurize the tank. I bonded the tank to the truck and the plane and used a water seperating filter in the air line to avoid water contamination from the motive flow air. I ran about 7K gallons of mogas through it.
I have stored the tank for years and need the hangar cleared out. Anyone in the area of SRQ need one, drop me a note. |
I hauled my flat sided 120 gal steel transfer tank back and forth to the gas station for years on a 5x8 utility trailer and filled the plane from it first with a rotary hand pump and later a 12v farm fuel pump - until the day I found out that the local farmers' co-op would deliver smallish quantities without a surcharge _and_ they carried what I was after: ethanol-free premium 91/93 octane mogas - for less than I had been paying for that unobtanium at the nearest filling station 20 miles away :eek: :D
A competitor's fuel tanker truck probably wouldn't be a welcome sight rolling across the tarmac at your local airport, but it works fine at a private farm strip. Except for the time he got stuck in the wet sod while I was at the office and I had to call a neighbor to come over on his tractor and pull him free last fall - still have deep ruts from that. |
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Here's the thread here on the forum: http://www.vansairforce.com/communit...07#post1421007 |
Sorry. wrong answer.
This is related to post #15 above. ---------------- I can answer that because I have Mark's setup: 50052113 https://www.amazon.com/SeaSense-Univ.../dp/B0019LZTGE Finn |
No problem, I ended up buying the clear bowl Goldenrod filter and the additonal water blocker too.
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