Phil
Well Known Member
Post Oshkosh and I'm putting in my fuel system finally.......
Last night, a buddy (A&P many years removed) of mine was at the house and he asked what I was going to seal my NPT fittings with. I said, Permatex #2.
You would have thought he bit into a lemon. He said I was crazy for using it and that I should use something else designed for aviation fuel systems. He said that "what ever you use, should be able to be dissolved in the fuel and combusted".
That sounds 100% counter intuitve to me. Why in the world would I want something sealing my fuel system if it dissovles in the fuel. Especially when you consider that it's dissolving so fast the process is completed before it reaches an injector.
Am I just wayyy off base?
Phil
Last night, a buddy (A&P many years removed) of mine was at the house and he asked what I was going to seal my NPT fittings with. I said, Permatex #2.
You would have thought he bit into a lemon. He said I was crazy for using it and that I should use something else designed for aviation fuel systems. He said that "what ever you use, should be able to be dissolved in the fuel and combusted".
That sounds 100% counter intuitve to me. Why in the world would I want something sealing my fuel system if it dissovles in the fuel. Especially when you consider that it's dissolving so fast the process is completed before it reaches an injector.
Am I just wayyy off base?
Phil