Furthering the diversion of the dirt in the fuel tank thread started by
Messrs. Clark & Vandergraf...
Morganeers, I learned just today that one of our vendors, Pianofortefabrik
Leipzig holds a patent on laminated wood, rubber-lined fuel tanks developed
during WWII for Messerschmidt(sp?) airplanes. Seems the wood with rubber
combo was less susceptible to explosion when pierced by bullets & shrapnel.
They don't use this technology at present, but are back to making some
beautiful pianos!
Could be useful for Morgans. Turn the whole tank into a structural member,
eliminating the support planking and stiffening up the back half of the
car. Whoops, looks like we're heading towards an Aero, here!
Jerry Murphy
'67 +4 6676, still holding fuel
At 10:19 AM 6/16/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Not necessarily! The specific gravity of aluminum (aluminium to those
>across the pond) is only 2.7. Assuming that wood has a specific gravity of
>0.9, the walls of a hypothetical wood gas tank could only be three times as
>thick as a similar one made out of aluminum to be lighter. Assuming a
>0.040" thick walls for the aluminum gas tank, you could only use 1/8" thick
>plywood for the tank.
>
>Chuck Vandergraaf (who, evidently, has nothing better to do)
>'52 +4
>
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> From: MOGLOOM@aol.com[SMTP:MOGLOOM@aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday June 15, 2000 10:30 PM
> To: hclark@mail.dcwi.com; mogman@rpa.net; Morgans@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Dirt in the Petrol Tank
>
> In a message dated 6/15/00 8:00:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> hclark@mail.dcwi.com writes:
>
> << the light weight is more in
> keeping with the Morgan Way. >>
>
> Maybe even made out of wood; that would be really keeping in the
>Morgan way!
> ;-)
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