Petrol damage to screens
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 9:57 pm
I now have to replace my Jodel front screen after have just done it 4 months ago.
The first screen was polycarbonate and a fuel spill made it disintegrate in front of me it just crazed and split in only a few seconds right across where the petrol splashed on it.
I replaced it with perspex and that seemed a lot better, until I was taxying with a full tank and some spurted out of the breather/fuel gauge hole and little hit the screen directly behind the filler and crack, it split about 5 inche in a straight line. I know the screen is a flt piece of perspex bent cold around the fuselage so it is under a bit of stress but it is a total and expensive nuisance to keep having to replace them. Why did they put the filler there? right in front on the transparency where the fumes and splashes are guaranteed to hit the plastic. Any ideas as to material change might help, polycarbonate was a total disaster as it completely fell apart, the perspex just cracked along a stress line.
The first screen was polycarbonate and a fuel spill made it disintegrate in front of me it just crazed and split in only a few seconds right across where the petrol splashed on it.
I replaced it with perspex and that seemed a lot better, until I was taxying with a full tank and some spurted out of the breather/fuel gauge hole and little hit the screen directly behind the filler and crack, it split about 5 inche in a straight line. I know the screen is a flt piece of perspex bent cold around the fuselage so it is under a bit of stress but it is a total and expensive nuisance to keep having to replace them. Why did they put the filler there? right in front on the transparency where the fumes and splashes are guaranteed to hit the plastic. Any ideas as to material change might help, polycarbonate was a total disaster as it completely fell apart, the perspex just cracked along a stress line.