REFLECTOR: Float Balls and U-cup seals

[Brian Michalk]

Take some safety wire or other springy non-corroding (stainless) wire. 
Get about two inches.  Make a coil in the middle like a spring.

Slip your spring into the brass fitting, and now the ball can't go past.

Tom wrote:
> Purchased the float balls and seals from Fletchair. (took 3 attempts 
> before I got them uncrushed as they were simply putting them in a 
> stamped envelope). The float balls are way too small to place in tubes 
> without the cup seals. Problem is that the cup seals are simply too 
> large. The 3/8" hose that we use will not fit over the seals. Anyone 
> successfully used these with the stock hose??? thx Tom
> p.s. in the interim I'm testing small fishing floats, shellaced wood 
> beads and painted corks (have them all sitting in avgas)--has anyone 
> gone outside the box on this and tried something other than the float balls?
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