Why not just a floating ball fixed to a string with knots at appropriate intervals. Styrofoam will melt in oil as will many plastics but a block of something like balsa wood or plastic or metal bottle known to resist petroleum.
You could get really fancy and have the string wrap around a drum of suitable diameter with a pointer to indicate empty through full. If you have the option I understand that with enough patience the average wife can be trained to read a fuel gauge. I understand that some even can learn the function of the oil lamp on an automobile gauge panel. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Rob Monitor To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 8:19 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Re: heating oil fuel gage hears is a idea for you... When I had a vending machine rout I had coffee machines and in them they had a over foal bucket and in the bucket there was a switch that turned off the machine if it got full.. Well what I'm getting to is the switch was a styrene foam ball on a little chain and when the bucket got full the ball would float up and there was a little switch on the other end of the chain and when there was no tension on the chain the switch would turn off.. So what I'm thinking is if you can get into the top of the tank you mite make some thing like this but with a little buzzer on it to tell you when the tank is low it would have to work in reverse of what the over full bucket switch was but it should work.... Also this way there would be no electronics in the tank it self... ROB FROM MINNESOTA ----- Original Message ----- From: Lee A. Stone To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Re: heating oil fuel gage Years ago Jeff when we had an outside 275 gallon Oil tank , I had a real nice local oil man and he brought me a stick which he had marked with a saw so I would know when I was down to a half or quarter tank of fuel.. I'd take a measurement and then set the end of that stick in a 3 pound coffee can as it dripped off, then I just set inside the garage door until the next time. It worked fine. I also like your idea of using the old vaccum hose . Stay warm. Lee -- My boy is a mean kid. I came home the other day and saw him taping worms to the sidewalk, he sits there and watches the birds get hernias. Well, only last Christmas I gave him a B-B gun and he gave me a sweatshirt with a bulls-eye on the back. I told my kids, "Someday, you'll have kids of your own." One of them said, "So will you." -- Rodney Dangerfield [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
