On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, James H. Nelson wrote:
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I have come upon a mechanical fuel quantity gage. It
> was in my marine parts catalog. The gage is a vertical tube that goes
> half way to the bottom of the tank. At that point (at the bottom of the
> tube) there is a pivot with a gear attaches to a swing arm that pivots at
> that point with a cork attached to the end. Is that confusing? Anyway,
> the pivot allows the cork to swing from top (next to the gage) in an
> arc, to the bottom to show empty.
>The key is the pivot point where a
> gear changes the swing arm to rotary motion for the shaft that goes up
> the tube to the gage head. This is sealed at the top so fuel going up
> the tube cannot get to the readout. At the top they put a magnet that
> rotates with the shaft. On top of the tube is a readout that
> magnetically tracks the one in the tube.
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A repeater for the instument panel , in plain view would be ace ....
any ideas ?
Happly building & flying .....
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