You know those little balls in the cheap little anti-freeze and battery testers.
---- Mark Langford <m...@n56ml.com> wrote: > KRnetHeads, > > It's been kind of quiet today, so let me throw this one out there. When I > bought N891JF, the sight tube was discolored due to age to the point that I > could barely see through it. I updated it with new tubing from McMaster > Carr, Tygon F-4040-A, which is what was used originally. The problem is this > tubing is extremely yellow, and it wipes out the blue dye in the 100LL fuel > to the point that it's like water. You can only see the dividing line > (miniscus) of the fuel level, and that takes some searching most of the time. > The easy solution would be to put a little ball of some sort in the tubing, > and it would have to be 3/16" or smaller to freely float to the surface. > Anybody have an idea on a source for something that would work for that job? > Another option (but not as attractive as the floating ball) would be a clear > tubing that's proven to work with fuel. Any ideas? > > Having seen three fuel level sensors fail on N56ML, I'm already a big fan of > the sight tube thing, although it does mean "fuel in the cockpit". > > Before I hit the "send" button, it occurred to me...a cheapo electrolyte > hydrometer would probably offer some balls that would work, but that remains > to be seen (yes I would look up the density before I wasted the $3). Any > other options? > > Thanks, > > Mark Langford > ML at N56ML.com > website at http://www.N56ML.com > -------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
