madmanmikie:
If you are worried about this same incident happening again do yourself a favor and just get a manual hand crank pump. I also had electric pumps on both my boughten and homemade flight boxes and had quite a few problems with leaking (no fires) around the pump mechanism inside the pump. You know the small box that has the two gears meshed inside that actually do the pumping of fuel when you flip the switch. They would leak where the o-ring is in the backplate of the pump or at the shaft where the geardrive from the motor would engage it.
You should get one of [link=http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXFAW2&P=ML]THESE[/link] for 10 bux along with the fuel can setup like [link=http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXRS88&P=ML]THIS[/link] for another 8 bux and you'll have the same setup I've been using since last fall. Works better than an electric pump (I don't seem to waste as much fuel with the manual pump) and it's portable. You can re-fuel your plane away from all electronics and your flight box....yes I still store the fuel on the flight box but rarely leave it there once at the field. If you don't like the dubro fuel fittings you can get a real nice cap for your fuel jug from heliproz.com....granted it's going to cost you more than 8 bux.
[link=http://www4.mailordercentral.com/heliproz/prodinfo.asp?number=131380]Heliproz Fuel Jug Set[/link] for 39 bux or [link=http://www4.mailordercentral.com/heliproz/prodinfo.asp?number=888600]Slimline Fuel Cap[/link] for 20 bux (you still need to buy the pump for this one though)
Here's a couple pics of my fuel jug setups:
The one using the dubro fuel jug fittings
and the other using an older version of the heliproz aluminum cap
The fuel pumps are mounted on a scrap piece of 3/4" pine that I had laying around that is trimmed to roughly the size and shape of the pump. The rest is just nylon cable rings with elastic cord (all available at your local home center) running through it to hold the pump onto the gallon jug....cheap and it works great.
Madd_Maxx