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Old 06-03-2010, 08:31 PM posted to alt.home.repair,alt.home.lawn.garden
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Default Garden Tractor fuel gauge

On Mar 6, 10:24�am, willshak wrote:
You know, the kind that has a solid plastic float that operates a flat
screw type axle to turn a needle in the cap showing the amount of fuel left.
These plastic floats seem to allow gas to permeate the float, giving a
less than correct fuel level.
I suppose I can buy a new cap/gauge/float assembly for this particular
tank, but that would only solve the problem for a while until that float
gets heavier.
I wonder if I can paint some sort of �material on the float to make it
more resistant to permeation of the gas?
I know the material has to be non-soluble in gasoline.
Ideas??

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Bill
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Some of the first floats in carbs were made out of cork. Get ya bottle
of wine.

Hank ~~~thinks alcohol can fix many problems