{"id":675,"date":"2008-10-15T22:26:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T20:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/?p=675"},"modified":"2008-11-03T23:22:50","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T22:22:50","slug":"aludyne-treatment-5h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"Aludyne treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spend almost 5 hours tonight Aludyne treating the tank parts. I am almost done, still need to treat the skins and a few small parts I haven’t made yet. I am doing this to prevent the tank from corroding inside. Overkill?… Maybe, but I love the way it looks all golden… \ud83d\ude09 It will make me smile everytime I refuel!<\/p>\n

Anyway, I recieved the new capacitive fuel quantity plates from Van’s today.. my sender kit contained plates for a RV-9 instead, but as always Van’s was very helpful and sent me the right plates right away.
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I started by deburring all the edges, then aligning them on one of the ribs and matchdrilled…
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After matchdilling, I used this rib as template for the other 3, then enlarged the holes to 1\/4″
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The outboard plates will interfere with the skin stiffeners, so they had to be trimmed a bit. I marked the trim, then drilled the corner with my unibit. Then I trimmed the rest with my snips and deburred it.
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Now it was time to dig out the Aludyne. I brought some home with me from work, poured it in a big bucket. Before and after dipping the parts into the fluid, I washed them down\u00a0with soap and water…
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Here are the finished fuel sender plates..
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..and with platenuts riveted on!
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A rib in Aludyne, I left them in for 10 minutes each.
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This nights accomplishment:
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