Kevlar moulding

[jimmystratos]

I have aluminium fuel tanks that I need to sheath in Kevlar. Can anybody tell me of a company in Scotland that can od this?

TIA

[rcarr]

jimmystratos said:

I have aluminium fuel tanks that I need to sheath in Kevlar. Can anybody tell me of a company in Scotland that can od this?

TIA

Do you need to used Kevlar? There are are cheaper alternatives.

[jimmystratos]

Not necessarily, but I want to use my existing tanks instead of custom built fuel cells - ££££.
What materials would you suggest?

[dycecooper]

PPS in Inverurie will do it

[rcarr]

Well, you can box them in a cavity and then fill the rest of the cavity with flame retardant expanding foam, my racing car had that, it worked well!

Cover them in GRP? Or buy some honeycomb aluminium and glue them to the sides of the fuel tank. Mallock do that, it gives the fuel tanks just an extra bit of impact resistance.

Are they foam filled? If not you can buy foam from demon tweeks.

[tuscan_thunder]

Another vote for PPS Glassfibre, Inverurie

[turbospud]

if a dry sump oil tank was installed in the cockpit would it need a second skin and what about the connecting hoses

[jimmystratos]

rcarr said:

Well, you can box them in a cavity and then fill the rest of the cavity with flame retardant expanding foam, my racing car had that, it worked well!

Cover them in GRP? Or buy some honeycomb aluminium and glue them to the sides of the fuel tank. Mallock do that, it gives the fuel tanks just an extra bit of impact resistance.

Are they foam filled? If not you can buy foam from demon tweeks.

Got them foam filled already. There's very little room to play with - the sheathing needs to be less than a cm thick.