(04-08-2010, 07:47 PM)ian huntly Wrote: And thank you for reminding me of Dump Fillers !

1/ I remember Dougie Randall "manufacturing" one from two large oil drums welded together..We managed to get a length of fuel resisting pipe.

I went to Slough to see a friend to get the special aviation style connectors from pipe to tank and the result worked fine for us.

2/ Dennis Ireland tried a similar one but failed to use/secure the same type of delivery pipe as we did. As a consequence, when he came into refuel it appeared that the fuel had denatured the pipe and the fuel spurted out all over Dennis's, Er, Groin area !! He continued on in the race but had a sore private area after the race.

Those Dump Systems were more dangerous than useful.

3/ Finally in another race I had the job to refuel Doug from the normal high level reservoir. Our little team checked everything, and I allowed a little drop of fuel out of the nozzle to prove we had flow.

Doug came in to refuel and I pushed the nozzle end of the pipe into the opened tank top. We expected to refuel in seconds but nothing came down the pipe.

Doug sat calmly as his pit team scrabbled trying to find the problem....

It appeared that one of the pit marshalls had seen the tap open before our rider arrived and for safety he had put it into the closed position !!

We did register a complaint but the marshall had done the right thing !!

Doug still finished in a good spot.

Ian, do you remember the tubular frame that Honda,/ Barry Symonds had built for the 1983? TT F1 race. It was built over the first pit and had a "quick filler" suspended in it, on that was on a retractable spring device that retracted the "quick filler" after use. If I remember correctly they filled Joey's and Roger ( marshalls) f1 machines with 25 litres of fuel, and changed the rear wheels in a matter of seconds. can anybody remember if the fuel was pressure fed or just gravity ?. I can remember Colin Arms and " technical" colleagues taking a interest as it was constructed, ( possibly consulting the rule book) as to it's legality !. I dont think they were allowed to use it for the Senior race.1.