Grease car fuel tank
Yesterday started off with a quick 10 minute trip to a “Flyin Breakfast” at Monks Corner. I helped a little with the food and setup, but mainly I just enjoyed a great early morning flight which was very nice.
I wanted to show you the progress on the the construction of Boeing 787 Dreamliner plant. They are still adding to it. The size is just immense! I have to pass it to go to my hanger, so I see the progress on a regular basis.
Only about 40 people showed up at the breakfast. Not many planes either as I think the weather (low clouds) may have put some attendees off.
I took the opportunity yesterday to finish off the oil tank part for my grease car. I spent hours welding aluminum and finally thing I am starting to “get it” on welding this metal. It certainly takes a lot of practice. At least the welds are not coming like big blobs or melting through. It takes a huge amount of current (175 A) and the TIG handle would get so hot I would have to let everything cool down ever 15 minutes. The inside of the tank is built with a baffle and a coil of 5/8″ Al tubing which I can circulate hot water through for additional heating of the cooking oil if I ever decide to use it (cold weather ops). I always like to plan ahead.
I have been using a 5 gal gas can for the last few months which conveniently fit into a well on the car for the cooking oil. It held 5 gal of oil and gave me a range of about 110 miles.
The new tank holds 8 gals of oil and it also has a low level alarm which activates at 1 gal. It looks a lot better than my red tank.
Speaking of red…. I wanted to paint the engine one color since the case was red and the accessory case was gray. It took a lot of time to paint but the engine is again one color. Tomorrow I’ll replace all the bolts with new ones .
The new look. Kind of like it..