ORIGINAL: Rendegade
Hey guys, I'm just about to remove an AP .061 glow motor from my little rat racer and replace it with a PAW80 for s@#ts and giggles.
I've now come to fitting the tank, well, acutally there in lies the problem. I don't have a diesel proof tank.
What would you suggest for a zero G tank, around 1 ounce?
Oh, and it can't be too big or too heavy!
As Greg has suggested above Diesel Fuel tanks are easy to make. Especially if you have some basic soldering skills.
Otherwise a decent lightweight and durable tank for Diesel Fuel can be easily fabricated from Glass Fibre cloth and a decent slow set epoxy. It turns out that
epoxy is highly resistant to the Kerosene.
The pic shows a Mike North control line diesel tank completely fabricated from 1.5 ounce cloth with slow set epoxy. The valve is for C/L racing.
It can be molded around a male plug liberality coated with PVA release or a bit of suitably shaped Styrofoam which can be
dissolved away with solvent after the epoxy has cured.
Others have successfully coated a bit of flat thin balsa with GF cloth or Alfoil on one side and then constructed the tank out of it with the cloth on the inside.
See:
http://home.wxs.nl/~wakke007/balsatank/balsa1.htm
There are tutorials on the UK c/l Combat web sites.
Ray