Van's Aircraft RV-10 Build: Fuel Tanks

Van's Aircraft RV-10 Build: Fuel Tanks - Part 2 Pro-Seal (18-5)

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Getting into the good stuff in our RV-10 build: pro-seal - that sticky, smelly stuff that keeps the fuel tanks from leaking all over the place. There's some good tricks we learned from others and some we figured out ourselves. I'll also go over why we stopped short of completing the entire tanks back when we built them.
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@elkskiutah8204 8 ай бұрын

my first video of yours to watch.. the tiles, double gloves, red cup to load a bag. 3 great tips and not even half way. I have seen some people mixing proseal and I'm not sure they were getting a complete mix. On 2 part systems its important to really mix the 2 pretty much down to the molecular level or close. You seem to be a better craftsman than many men... I doubt I would ever build a plane but I am falling down he Vans rabbit hole this last month.. and also learned about the laser parts issue and I fascinated by the laser parts problem as a retired mechanical engineer who worked on secret military designs and production issues. I am sure there was some ME like me at Vans if they have any who had his hand up in the air early on... I cant imagine they didn't have parts individually labels as to date, batch and origin of manufacture.

@mke737guy Жыл бұрын

Another great video guys! Thank you for all your time spent on these.

@PlaneLady Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! 😊

@squeakersc063 Жыл бұрын

We used paper bowls, plastic spoons, and popsicle sticks for mixing. For encapsulating rivet heads, I used a piece of the fuel vent line that was leftover and flared it out with the flaring tool and would dip it in the proseal and spin it on each rivet head.

@danielbasovitch5087 Жыл бұрын

Great Video guys! I also use 2 pair of latex gloves when I do Epoxy Layups with Carbon fibre. I don't ever wear good T shirts, because they WILL get ruined! As I found out too many times. See you at OSH 23.

@1shARyn3 Жыл бұрын

I LIKE your timing (Van's Builders Weekly newsletter just put up your part I today 😀)

@PlaneLady Жыл бұрын

Oh cool! 😊 thanks for letting me know

@1hornet1 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@PlaneLady Жыл бұрын

You're welcome 😊

@timg60 Жыл бұрын

So many great tips!!!

@PlaneLady Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@kentmisegades7211 Жыл бұрын

Very useful comments, tips and tricks. The upspeak annoys this old guy though, it's a generational thing I suppose.🤠

@glenwhatley7366 Жыл бұрын

A cleaner way would be to buy empty sealant cartridges from brown aircraft tool and get a cheap sealant gun on ebay.

@PlaneLady Жыл бұрын

Fair, but we already had sandwich baggies and solo cups at the house so we didn’t have to buy anything using those 😉 and the nice thing with the small baggie is it fit pretty much anywhere in the tank in any orientation if we needed to apply more

@ayates5709 Жыл бұрын

I think I would have made the tank to accept the return line from the start, as you could blank it, if you didn't go down the injection route and it would be available for a retro upgrade to injection later, if you had wanted to. That said you made a good choice at the time and had no issues when you decided to go injection.

@PlaneLady Жыл бұрын

We didn’t want to drill the hole if we weren’t going to need a return line and then have to worry about sealing it sufficiently to not leak if we opted not to use it. That was our thought process

@ayates5709 Жыл бұрын

@@PlaneLady Understandable. I was just thinking of giving flexiblity down the line later, if a change in mind.

@PlaneLady Жыл бұрын

Makes sense 👍

@mathieusan 10 ай бұрын

any reason you didn't prime the inside of the skin and all of the stiffeners first?

@PlaneLady 10 ай бұрын

You don’t prime the inside of the fuel tanks - you don’t want anything getting into the fuel. Van’s specifically says in their instructions (18-4, Step 9): “do not prime any area that will be in the inside of the tank.”

@mathieusan 10 ай бұрын

ah ok, good to know then. Thank you

@ioanekirarahu951 Жыл бұрын

I'd love to meet you guys. My airplane projects are principally in wood.

@EJWash57 Жыл бұрын

I'm guessing that you built your fuel tanks prior to December 2020? You must be wading through a LOT of video files. It seems you're a lot farther along in the build process than the most recently posted videos reflect. How about a video about how far along you are as of February, 2023? Thanks for the tip on using ziplock bags to protect things you don't want Pro Seal on. Pro Seal seems to have a mind of its own, like the 1958 movie, The Blob.

@danielbasovitch5087 Жыл бұрын

So Christine, How many shirts did you have to throw out?? How much Pro Seal did you get into your hair looking inside the Tanks?

@PlaneLady Жыл бұрын

Didn’t throw out any shirts - just used the one in the videos. It’s washed and clean save for the pro-seal on it and keeping it to use for future pro-seal or other dirty jobs. And fortunately I did not get any pro-seal in my hair, lol! 😁

@fsecofficial 11 ай бұрын

Holy hell what did you do order an airplane from Ikea 😂 yikes

@PlaneLady 11 ай бұрын

Lol! Kind of 😂 it’s pretty cool!

@michaelbevan3285 4 ай бұрын

Wear a mask!!

@tomstrum6259 3 ай бұрын

What a nasty inappropriate Mess.....Worst leak prone possible design.....Use Real pre-tested all Metal aircraft fuel tanks well Isolated from wing vibrations & dimensional Stress....Don't use aircraft fuel Tanks for Structural members.....