{"id":568,"date":"2007-03-26T09:03:42","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T13:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/?p=568"},"modified":"2013-03-31T16:34:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T20:34:18","slug":"fabricating-a-pickup-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"Fabricating a pickup screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I received the brass screen I ordered from McMaster-Carr. I needed to finish up the right tank&#8217;s fuel pickup, so I broke out the wire cutters, soldering iron and solder to fabricate a pickup screen.<\/p>\n<p>This turned out to be a lot easier than I anticipated; the only trick was keeping the screen from unraveling while cutting and forming it. Running a bead of solder along one edge of the screen &#8216;locks&#8217; the individual brass wires in place, making it easy to roll into a cylinder using a piece of 3\/8&#8243; aluminum tube as a mandrel. Solder the long side of the cylinder together with more solder, trim the excess screen away then close the end &#8211; and voila, a pickup screen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tank_pickup_prototype.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-569 aligncenter\" title=\"tank_pickup_prototype\" alt=\"Flop tube pickup with safety wire\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tank_pickup_prototype.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tank_pickup_prototype.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tank_pickup_prototype-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before somebody emails me, yes, I do know now that Van&#8217;s sells a pre-made fuel pickup with screen. But I already had the screen on order when I found out, so I decided to experiment &#8211; and it was easy to make an acceptable screen. I&#8217;ll probably continue to experiment with this over then next couple of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I received the brass screen I ordered from McMaster-Carr. I needed to finish up the right tank&#8217;s fuel pickup, so I broke out the wire cutters, soldering iron and solder to fabricate a pickup screen. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=568\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuel-tanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1961,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}