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wbecker 
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Posted: 23 Nov 2016 at 3:07pm |
 I do a lot of mowing with my lowered B  , thought it would be nice to have a fuel gauge. So I cut the gauge area out of a rusty D14 tank and welded it on the B tank. Also cut the tank in half at the seam so I could sand blast the inside. I think I'm going to like not putting a stick in the tank to check the gas. Sorry I can't seem to get the text and pics in the right order.   
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Sandknob
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Posted: 23 Nov 2016 at 3:16pm |
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Is that one of those glow in the dark gauges?
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wbecker
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Posted: 23 Nov 2016 at 3:22pm |
No, glow in the dark. 
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Bill Long
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Posted: 23 Nov 2016 at 3:53pm |
Great Job! By the way What A Nice Looking B! Thanks for taking such good care of my favorite. Good Luck! Bill Long
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Hubnut
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Posted: 23 Nov 2016 at 4:27pm |
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Nice work! What's that airplane in the background?
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1940 B "Lucy"
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1942 B w/ finish mower "Dick"
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wbecker
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Posted: 23 Nov 2016 at 5:19pm |
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Steve , the airplane is my wife's Cessna 152.
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Chuck(ONT)
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Posted: 23 Nov 2016 at 5:25pm |
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Bill, any ties to Parks College?
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Sandknob
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Posted: 23 Nov 2016 at 6:09pm |
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In the propane world those are similar to the junior/senior gauges. The black face are glow in the dark and the white face are standard. The glow in the dark is for transports and bobtail trucks with the round gauge. I just had not seen onethat small with the black face. Anyway, great job. Looks very nice and no more stick to check fuel with either!
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wbecker
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Posted: 23 Nov 2016 at 7:06pm |
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Thanks Bill Long!
Chuck, No real ties to Parks, but I towed banners all through the 90s, had a hangar across the street from the Parks airplane parking ramp.
Sandknob, the gauge is form a generic Allis replacement from a tractor supply, a simple float type.
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 23 Nov 2016 at 7:43pm |
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I like it. I have often thought it would be nice to have a gauge on the ole 45 and even had a gauge for a while. Just never got to the top of the list and I don't have the skills you seem to have to do such a nice job.
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Hubnut
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Posted: 23 Nov 2016 at 8:01pm |
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Bill, I thought it looked familiar. I learned to fly in a carburated Cessna 172. The 152 was cheaper, but I was too tall for it. The 172 was tight too!
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1940 B "Lucy"
1941 B w/ Woods L59 "Flavia"
1942 B w/ finish mower "Dick"
1941 C w/ 3-point "Maggie"
1947 C SFW w/ L306 "Trixie"
1972 314H
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Posted: 23 Nov 2016 at 8:41pm |
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Good idea, and very nice work! Thanks for sharing
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Jacob Swanson
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wbecker
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Posted: 26 Nov 2016 at 1:12pm |
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I looked in all my catalogs, can't find that generic gauge i used, they now have one with the Allis Chalmers on it at twice the price, $74, glad I bought it a couple years ago.
Bill B
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Posted: 26 Nov 2016 at 1:20pm |
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I love it! Fun stuff to do.
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Posted: 26 Nov 2016 at 9:13pm |
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Very nice work on that gage installation and taking the tank apart and welding back together also! Looks awesome. Gives the "B" a little bling! Wished I could weld that well!
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Chris
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Posted: 27 Nov 2016 at 2:47am |
And the best part is you know
the tank is clean now.
Robert
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