"Faure, Marin" wrote:
>
> In a Series III, at least, the float was a plastic cylinder that clipped into
> the end of the sender arm. When mine went bad years ago, I asked
> the mechanics who work on the planes I fly what the old Taylorcrafts,
> Piper Cubs, etc., used for floats in their gas tanks, which were mounted
> in front of the cockpit. A float in the tank was attached to a vertical rod that
> stuck up through the cowling in front of you. As you used fuel, the rod would
> get shorter as the float moved down in the tank. The rod may have been calibrated
> in gallons- I don't know as I've never flown one of those planes.
The J3 I learned to fly in wasn't calabrated. When the lack of exposed
wire made you nervious, you landed. Sometimes on the road beside the
filling station :-)
Steve
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