fuel shut off valve

[astjp2]

Tim, did Andy get ahold of you about a valve? If not, I can put the bug in his ear again.
John

I don’t think he did. Thanks for the referral, tim

[astjp2]

Bill: The main fuselage tank fuel valves (and the wing-tank fuel valves at head height in the wing root) DID have the quarter-turn stops fitted (as did all the other tens of thousands made). The difference with the Taylorcraft fuselage fuel shut-off valve is the bellcrank between the actuating rod & the valve at the tank is between 45 and 135 degrees, not 0 and 90 degrees. Both still make up 90.

I attach some photos that might help?

Rob

Mine had the little stop pin break free of the solder, got contaminated with gas and always stink because of a slight drip that would not allow itself to be soldered closed.

[Lisa]

Lisa, we're on no high horses in our little group here. We enjoy flying & maintaining our small simple Taylorcraft. No politics; may be a bit of friendly banter, meet-ups and so on.
So please be careful (in on-line life, as well as flying!)

Sincerely,
Robert Lees, very occasional moderator.

I guess the message that I typed came across the web far differently than the one in my head when I wrote it. It certainly didn't seem "political" to me. All I was trying to say was that: "People are people," be they the teenager that mows your lawn, cashier at the local hardware store, your kid's teacher, or an NTSB investigator.

Every time I order something from Amazon I have to put a note explaining that I live in X town not Y town because somebody made a mistake and transposed two numbers, and it isn't worth it for them to fix the obvious error. Economics, my dishwasher doesn't work without the sacrifice of a twist tie each time I use it (don't ask). But I don't fix the problem for the same reason Amazon doesn't, and the same reason the FAA doesn't reissue a TCDS with an obvious typo.

Someone said "Why does the FAA..." Which I read as assuming that the FAA (or anyone) has an agenda, I was just trying to say "People are people," meaning flawed, myself included.

Lisa