Leaking fuel after top off

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Re: Leaking fuel after top off

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two small buckets to leave in the nose compartment
This won't work, the dripping happens all up and down the wing. The last photo on my blog entry about the first mishap shows the sort of mess you will see.

This is the sort of thing that if there were an enterprising engineering firm that had a $1,000 solution I'd pay for it in an instant, maybe even with another $1,000 for the STC overhead. There are vertical fins on the wingtip. Run a vent line up in there, have a little hole on the trailing edge. Get a little creative.
Colin Summers, PP Multi-Engine IFR, ~3,000hrs
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