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Re: Copper Fuel Lines - Bad?

To: spitlist@gte.net
Subject: Re: Copper Fuel Lines - Bad?
From: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 07:27:52 +0000
Cc: ctschmitz@CCGATE.HAC.COM, triumph owners digest <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Organization: UKAEA
References: <199804090223.DAA02278@fuspcjcc.culham.ukaea.org.uk>
spitlist@gte.net wrote:
> Tom,
> OK, I've read your question and some of the replies and at the risk of
> getting flamed by those who have trashed theidea of using copper in fuel
> lines,  I know of two cars that have copper lines between the float
> bowls of twin SU's.  One of them is mine.  I did it because of the very
> severe bend required to fabricate the thing.  I have had it in for about
> a year and there appears to be no problem with corrosion or varnish in
> the carbs.

What you have to remember is that this fule line if I am not mistaken it
insulated from the rest of the fule system, even body.  There for if
it's an electro-chemical reaction that is taking place to cause varnish
it won't happen.  If however you have it bolted to your steel fule tank,
it is a different story.  There will be a EMF at work here, when a frend
was testing the fule "catalists" which were made of copper-imobium
alloy, with a steel canister.  There was about 0.2 volts accross the
gap. 

Having said that I would put a fule filter in, and relish the fact that
a tiny peace of copper was being desolved into the fule, replacing the
lead that they take out.  

Oh and those catalist things last for ages, so I would imagin the copper
fule lines would last even longer than the steel.  Allowing for rust and
things. 
-- 
James Carpenter
Yellow '79 spit wired by a trained marmot

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