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Re: 1500 Temp Sender

To: Daniel1312@aol.com, adrian@icx.net, spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: 1500 Temp Sender
From: robert weeks <robert@woozy.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 19:17:24 -0500
In-reply-to: <60d4e714.36d09287@aol.com>
Reply-to: robert weeks <robert@woozy.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Is there a reasonably priced electronic replacement for the 1275? My
capillary tube broke off at the sensor the other day. It would need to be a
dual guage; water temp and oil pressure.

Thanks,

Robert



At 6:11 PM -0500 2/21/99, Daniel1312@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 21/2/1999  8:22:16PM,  adrian@icx.net writes:
>
><< twisty-spring wire thing >>
>
>This sounds like a capillary tube sensor - a fine but hollow tube that is
>permanently fixed to the gauge at one end and permanently fixed to the sensor
>at the other.  There is a waxy substance in the sensor and tube that expands
>when warm to give the gauge its reading.
>
>In the event the capillary tube is not permenantly attached the gauge is
>history, likewise the sensor (costs more to repair than buy now).  The twisty
>spring wire is I guess their to protect the tube.
>
>Other temperature gauges are wholly electric and the sender sends an electric
>signal to an electric gauge to produce a reading.
>
>
>Daniel1312




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