jpaul
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I just finished a fuel tank and wanted to share it with you. The tank is 1-1/2' in diameter and will be used
to supply fuel to a Hit and Miss engine, the Farmboy designed by Jerry Howell.
The brass fuel tank was fabricated from a salvaged piece of tubing from a sink drain. The end caps were
pressed from sheet stock. The machining process I followed appeared in Model Engine Builder, Issue No. 18.
Many thanks to Dwight Giles of the Bay Engine Modelers for sharing his methods.
The end caps are disks, pressed in a die to form a cup similar to Engine Freeze Plugs. This is the third tank I
have made in this fashion. I thought of using Freeze Plugs but I found my self wasting time at the parts counter, not knowing the "year, make and model" of the car . I couldn't get the attendant to find caps with a 1.437"
diameter; his computer didn't list them that way.
to supply fuel to a Hit and Miss engine, the Farmboy designed by Jerry Howell.
The brass fuel tank was fabricated from a salvaged piece of tubing from a sink drain. The end caps were
pressed from sheet stock. The machining process I followed appeared in Model Engine Builder, Issue No. 18.
Many thanks to Dwight Giles of the Bay Engine Modelers for sharing his methods.
The end caps are disks, pressed in a die to form a cup similar to Engine Freeze Plugs. This is the third tank I
have made in this fashion. I thought of using Freeze Plugs but I found my self wasting time at the parts counter, not knowing the "year, make and model" of the car . I couldn't get the attendant to find caps with a 1.437"
diameter; his computer didn't list them that way.