Thursday, May 27, 2021

Fitting custom fuel lines from TS flight lines - 2 hours

 My order from TS flightlines arrived and they do look great. I ordered a custom J-tube and an S-Tube to fit the Aerolab gascolator. They do look great and the tight radius are really good. However I soon found that the J-tube interferes with the spar when fitted to the stock position of the fuel selector hole.

My thoughts circled to making a new fuel selector plate and pushing the selector switch forward which then fixes the issue of the spar. However, the J-tube itself is too short in height. The selector plate would have to be lowered quite far to make it work. Looks like its about 3/8" short in height.



Unfortunately I won't be able to use any of these. Its a shame. Tom at TS flightlines was so wonderful to deal with and the workmanship of the tubes is great, but unfortunately his RV setup and mine are just too different.

Tom's pieces did give me the information I could then use to fashion my own custom tubes. Using the now 'samples' I fashioned my own J-tube. And the fit is excellent. Albeit not as tight as Tom can get to but I can work with what I got.