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| Subject: | Re: Fuel level indicator |
It's been so long I don't remember what I made the float out of. I don't
think it was cork, maybe I carved it out of wood or found a plastic ball
used a permanent marker to make it more visible. I do remember building
a restriction that I fit inside the line that keep the float from sloshing
out of the sight tube. Did this by cutting 2 sections of fuel tube 3/16 or
so long pinched it and using a wire slid them down the sight tube to
match the top and bottom of the fuel tank with the ball in-between. The
fuel could get past the restriction to float the ball, and at the same time
keep the ball out of the pumps and carbs where it could cause trouble.
Boyd Young
Mkiii utah
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018, 2:17 PM Rex Rodebush <jrrodebush@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have an external tube to check the fuel level (see pix). It's sometimes
> hard to see the fuel in the tube. I thought of adding a small ball float
> in the tube for visibility. I know J3's use a cork on the bottom of a wire
> for fuel level. Don't know if it is coated or sealed with anything? Any
> ideas from the group on what to use? Obviously must be compatible with
> fuel.
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> Read this topic online here:
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> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=480739#480739
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| Subject: | Re: Fuel level indicator |
Russ, used to use shellac but modern fuel additives in car gas might affect it
like they did the old sloshing compound.
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> On Jun 8, 2018, at 4:24 PM, Russ Kinne <russk50@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Rex Rodebush - if you're really lucky you can find a bead from some sort of
necklace that will be liquid-proof
> end not dissolve in fuel test it first!
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>> On Jun 8, 2018, at 4:15 PM, Rex Rodebush <jrrodebush@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I have an external tube to check the fuel level (see pix). It's sometimes hard
to see the fuel in the tube. I thought of adding a small ball float in the
tube for visibility. I know J3's use a cork on the bottom of a wire for fuel
level. Don't know if it is coated or sealed with anything? Any ideas from
the group on what to use? Obviously must be compatible with fuel.
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>> Read this topic online here:
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>> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=480739#480739
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>> Attachments:
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>> http://forums.matronics.com//files/img_20180608_133656384_489.jpg
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