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Greyhawk,
Having to drink the wine to obtain the corks is
the major advantage of those old float switches (white). I also had to glue the
corks to the floats on our 320 (also still working well). Unfortunately, the
newer (black) float switches that Spruce sells now will rise to the occasion in
avgas so there is no longer any reason to drink wine... unless you’ve had a
particularly good airplane building day... maybe a particularly bad building
day, or perhaps...high tide?... a day of the week ending in “day”?
Bill Harrelson
N5ZQ 320 2,050 hrs
N6ZQ IV under construction
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 1:28 PM
Subject: [LML] Re: FW: [LML] Header tank
Bill, Rob, et al,
Yes Bill, even if one used the float switch supplied by Lancair (circa
1989) that, since the float was not sympatico with the specific gravity of fuel,
required cutting into the float, adding two wine corks and coating them with
epoxy. I think I did it right because it still works, but I don't remember
much after having to drink two bottles of Santa Margarita Pinot Grigio in order
to get those corks. It could have been worse - luckily the corks used by
Chivas Regal were way too short.
Grayhawk
In a message dated 6/5/2012 7:28:15 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
n5zq@verizon.net writes:
Rob,
The optical switches work great with the Pillar
Point low fuel warning system. For the automatic fuel transfer system the
float switches work best.
Bill Harrelson
N5ZQ 320 2,050 hrs
N6ZQ IV under construction
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 12:38 PM
Subject: [LML] FW: [LML] Header tank
Further
to my recent post about float switches to use in the header tank of a LN2
aircraft, Silvio kindly posted the response, below, on the List. These sensors
appear to be very small, light and easy to install in the header tank. I was
wondering whether anyone else on the List has used them, and if so, what your
experience of them has been – good or bad.
Thanks
again in anticipation.
Regards,
Rob
Stevens
Perth,
Western Australia.
From: Silvio
Novelli [mailto:ppxsn@novellisouza.com.br]
Sent: Thursday, 31 May
2012 12:02 AM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: Re: [LML]
Header tank
There is an optical switch that works very well in my
Lancair. You will need some electronics. Do not have PN but you can look at
Google. See attached sheet.
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