"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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| On Sep 19, 5:00 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
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| epends on the type, but tin tanks are no kind of insurance against it.
| Try
| it sometime. Drain some fuel, if there's some water, drain it all out
| and then shake the airplane. Pretty sure you;ll get some more.
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| BTW, you're tanks are more than likely aluminum. I could be wrong,
| but I'
| ve
| never seen stainless tanks in any airplane.
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| Bertie
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| Surprisingly, I can count on one hand getting water in the fuel and my
| bet how it got in there is my carelessness on taking the caps off
| after a rain and the residual rain underneath the lever sneaks into
| the tank. But I will give what you say above a try, nothing gain,
| nothing loss but the adventure.
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| Yeah, it's rare enough. depends on the airplane and where you live.
| We had an accident near where I live with an engine failure on takeoff
| after some very heavy rain. The guys were OK, but the airplane was
| destroyed ( Cherokee). There was no problem found with the engine. I think
| thye might have had this problem.
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| Bertie