Unbelievable ... I maidened my new plane yesterday and ... once again ... my clunk had fallen off. I had assembled the fuel tank a few days ago and, trying to ensure that the clunk would not just fall off again, I had wrapped some fuse wire over the hosing and barb to be certain it wouldn't come loose. What I appear to have done this time is to tighten the wire too much and the result was that it partially cut through the tubing. During flight, the tubing separated from the clunk at the wire portion ... basically I garrotted my clunk.

The dumb thing was that the clunk had already passed my 'pull test' but I wanted to be safer than sorry. The fuel bottle mouth is only 'just' wide enough to get the clunk through ... and now that it is loose inside the bottle, there will be no way to get it out short of cutting the bottle open. I now use a new bottle.

Neil