Fabricated a fuel pickup for the right tank

Not too many more pictures to show; I’ve haven’t accomplished much on the airplane recently and what little I’ve done, I don’t have too many pictures of. But here’s one thing I did – fabricate a fuel pickup for the right tank, connecting to the fixed pickup and anti-rotation bracket I put together on 15 January.

Fixed pickup in the right tank

What’s missing here are the slots cut with a saw into the aft end of the pickup tube. I think this is a cheezy approach by Van’s – anything the size of the saw kerf or smaller will go straight to the gascolator or fuel filter. My tech counselor thought the same thing, so he bought some brass screen from McMaster-Carr and fabricated a pickup like those used in production aircraft. I ordered some of the same material – 16×16 brass screen – and I’m going to try my hand at doing the same thing.