Re: Fuel level senders

bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:
[...] That is, the fuel concentration is above the Upper Explosive Limit


Right, and the limits are pretty narrow as well. I remember playing
with a cork gun, a piece of steel tube with a spark plug at one end
and a cork at the other. Three drops of petrol popped the cork 20m
high. Two or four drops did nothing.

Jeroen Belleman
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