Richard Connell
Well Known Member
Today VHXRK officially graduated from RV10 to RV10ER.
I had approximately 100h on her before I started this project in late Jan.
It took 90h to build the new tanks and around 50h to complete the modifications on the airframe.
As others have mentioned, the quality of the parts, jigs and instructions are top notch.
I opted to put in two SW senders in each tank, modifying the inboard sender to place both senders in series.
I calibrated each tank for both flight and ground attitudes in 5L (1.25gal) increments.
This resulted in a nice smooth sensible calibration curve that calibrated all the way from empty to full. A big improvement from the stock single sender RV10 setup.
As Ken sez, the fun factor goes down a bit on a flying 10. Make sure you have a comfortable crawler and some goggles. You’ll spend a lot of time under the wing making metal on top of yourself! You may also learn some new words removing and installing the tanks.
All that said this is a very achievable modification to a flying 10. I’m very glad I made the effort.
It would be trivial on wings under construction.
Here’s some random pics.
I had approximately 100h on her before I started this project in late Jan.
It took 90h to build the new tanks and around 50h to complete the modifications on the airframe.
As others have mentioned, the quality of the parts, jigs and instructions are top notch.
I opted to put in two SW senders in each tank, modifying the inboard sender to place both senders in series.
I calibrated each tank for both flight and ground attitudes in 5L (1.25gal) increments.
This resulted in a nice smooth sensible calibration curve that calibrated all the way from empty to full. A big improvement from the stock single sender RV10 setup.
As Ken sez, the fun factor goes down a bit on a flying 10. Make sure you have a comfortable crawler and some goggles. You’ll spend a lot of time under the wing making metal on top of yourself! You may also learn some new words removing and installing the tanks.
All that said this is a very achievable modification to a flying 10. I’m very glad I made the effort.
It would be trivial on wings under construction.
Here’s some random pics.