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Default Plywood fuel tanks

Lew Hodgett wrote:
cavelamb himself wrote:

Glass yes, epoxy no.

I believe Vinyl ester resin is the prefered choice for fule tanks.


You believe wrong.

Lew


Awright Lew,

Maybe marine gas is different from mogas these days?

I've had sevearl aircraft tanks built with epoxy fail.
But never a failure with Vinyl Ester.

Auto fuels these days have more solvents than gasoline.
And those solvents will leach through epoxy and polyester.

YMMV, but I'll stick with ve.

Richard