[AT] Gas Tank sending unit needed

[charlie hill]

Those service station tank measuring sticks are still very much in use today 
and the one I saw the other day at a local store looked just like the one my 
dad had when he sold his station in '59.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
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Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Gas Tank sending unit needed


> Somewhere in my "junk" collection is one of those old service station tank
> measuring sticks with the painted marks and numbers used to determine the
> level of the underground tanks. Another one of my auction sale 
> acquisitions.
> Too long to use in a tractor and in too good shape to start cutting it up.
> I just use a piece of an old broken tape measure in my older tractors that
> have no gas gauges. The Massey Super 90 has a gauge that does not work. 
> It's
> Perkins diesel runs so long on a tank of fuel that I have a hard time
> remembering just when I last checked it.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
> http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike Sloane <mikesloane at verizon.net>
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> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 5:34 AM
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>
>
>> When I ran a service station back in the '60s, we used that method to
>> find out how much gasoline was in our tanks (so that we could arrange
>> for deliveries). I am sure that this method is still used today: The
>> sticks were very long and marked in inches.
>
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