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Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: Propellor on May 23, 2015, 08:57:06 PM

Title: Float, float on
Post by: Propellor on May 23, 2015, 08:57:06 PM

Float on float on. Do dee do dee do.

Hypothetical.

If I want to set the float height in a carburettor, using a tube up the side, a la manometer fashion, and I decide to use water instead of petrol, how far out will the reading be, due to the difference in density between petrol and water? 

Title: Re: Float, float on
Post by: Oldtimer on May 23, 2015, 11:50:53 PM

Should Imagen naff-all that makes any difference.

Title: Re: Float, float on
Post by: Propellor on May 25, 2015, 05:00:23 AM

Quote from: Oldtimer on May 23, 2015, 11:50:53 PM

Should Imagen naff-all that makes any difference.

Yeah, that's what I reckoned. But there will be a difference, I guess?

Title: Re: Float, float on
Post by: Steve Lake on May 25, 2015, 09:10:57 AM

use paraffin or diesel.. similar SG and won't contaminate your carb galleries

Title: Re: Float, float on
Post by: Propellor on May 25, 2015, 11:06:44 AM

Quote from: SteveL on May 25, 2015, 09:10:57 AM

use paraffin or diesel.. similar SG and won't contaminate your carb galleries

Cheers steve

Good advice.

I use petrol, but someone was suggesting to me that using water is fine. Being the skeptic I am, I thought I'd put it to the forum.

Thanks.