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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Rat Racing and Team Racing => Topic started by: Wayne J. Buran on April 23, 2007, 04:46:26 AM
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I have some club members looking for quick fill tanks, 1-2 oz. Any help.
Thanks
Wayne
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We used to make our own, use a 1/2" dia. brass tube soldered in the tank and a baby bottle crosscut nipple in it. Then a 3/16" brass tube in the quick-fill bottle with a 1/16" vent-to-open-air tube soldered to the side. Back pit man jams it through the nipple and squeezes until fuel squirts out the vent while the front man is restarting the engine. Catch, jam, squeeze, pull out and launch. Maybe 3-5 seconds in the pit. I could draw you a diagram if you wanted.
--Ray
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Hi Wayne
I don't know of anyone currently manufacturing a "quickfill" type of fuel tank.
Unless you have a specific tank design in mind, I'd just the buy the correct size brodak tank, 1 or 2 oz. and re-plumb for racing, then install a mechanical quickfill. Melvin Shuette sells a very nice mechanial quickfill, as does the racing moderator of this forum Scott Jenkins.
Mark Warwashana can supply the Rubber "Duck Bill" type quickfill that "Dons" and "Taffinder" had supplied in the past. He also has the old "Dons" wheel line as well, and can supply them in the original hard black rubber, as well as red Polyeurethane, in sizes from 1.25-2.25" in 1/4" increments.
Les
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Thanks Les,
Quick fill below $20.00 + S&H
Scott
On edit: The picture does not do it justice will post another at lunch.
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This is the set up I use on the Dons quick fills it works for pressure and suction like a safety check too keep it closed . make a 1/32 wire half loop and bend both ends down into a vee this applies pressure to the duck bill to keep it closed . Notch the top of the half inch tube half way around it, then solder the wire in place and smooth the edges.
Willis ;D
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Thanks for the info guys. We will probably try to replumb something.
Wayne