Fueling Equipment

[Cherrybark]

Thanks John. I saw that decal on a gorgeous, white Kitfox and got permission to use the artwork for my own decal!

[Eric Page]

Shutterstock has it as a vector image, but it's available elsewhere as a PNG. If you want to have a decal made, get the vector so it can be enlarged without loss of resolution.

[jrevens]

As I detailed in a post, many moons ago, Shutterstock is where I got the design. I had it on my airplane quite awhile before Kitfox announced it as their new logo. No one but some local friends and family had seen it on my plane at that time. As I said to John McBean, “I guess great minds think alike”. The Kitfox announcement was a little bit of a shock to me, as I had been searching for something I liked that was different from everyone else. Obviously, my mission failed. I waffled between the horizontal and vertical versions (I have both), but ended up doing the vertical one, because I didn’t want to split it between the fin and the rudder.

[kenjfrance]

For operating on floats, I use plastic 5 gal. (imperial) can with the vent cap. I put an air valve in the vent cap and made a brass washer with nipples on both sides and added appropriate lengths of inlet and outlet hoses. I also soldered a copper wire to the brass washer and ran a ground wire up the hose with a grounding clamp attached to the wing tank filler hole. Simply attach my little car tire inflator compressor and in about 4 - 5 mins. all the fuel has been "pumped into the wing"....(about the same amount of time it takes to siphon it in from the top of my ladder in the hanger. Of Note: when all the fuel is in the wing, you must not shut off the compressor before removing the hose into the wing tank, or it starts to siphon back into the plastic gas can.

[jiott]

That is really cool.

[efwd]

I agree. Now if I could only source ethanol free fuel.

[rv9ralph]

I agree. Now if I could only source ethanol free fuel.

Eddie, that will be almost impossible in California. About 5 years ago I found a website that listed ethanol free fuels, back then there were few sources in California... mostly farming centers and boat docks. I checked in the last year and there no sources for ethanol free fuel in California. Now your only choices are 100LL and UL 94.

Ralph

[KenZ]

Ethanol free gas . Try this App or website "pure-gas.org"
I noticed that is isn't up to date but it does have phone numbers you can call