REFLECTOR: Flush Fit Fuel Sender Pockets

[vance atkinson]

John and all.

The little orange ball is made of cork.  They are made in Spain by the 
way.  The reason they sometimes hang up is static electricity.  Our 
planes are plastic, the site gauge is plastic, and the ball has to be 
lite enough to float in the fuel so it winds up "clinging" to the side 
of the gauge sometimes.  Just smack it with your hand and it will fall 
down.

The fuel level line ( the meniscus) is dark enough so you really don't 
need the float but builders called and really wanted one !

Vance Atkinson
mfg of the site gauges.



On 3/28/2012 5:50 AM, John Abraham wrote:
> The Atkins sight gauges work fine. Our XL has only JPI with sky's port 
> fuel probes and it actually reads within a gallon on each side. A fuel 
> sender that shows you what is going on makes it nice if you are flying 
> a lot of IFR so you don't have to keep looking back over your shoulder 
> but you sure can't beat a fail proof seeing is believing gauge.
>
> Just FYI keep an eye on fuel level. Sometimes the orange ball can 
> stick in the sight gauge.