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A surveyor once told me a sight gage doesn't meet "code"
In Response To: Sight gauge requires access to the side of the tank... Mechanical float gauge only requires access to top. 
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() Not sure whether that means USCG or NMMA but the issue is that you can't have any access other than top access in a fuel tank. That means no drain petcock either.
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- ideas on how to read fuel level in Al tank?
- More on this... just dawned on me...
- I have the Moeller mechanical in aluminum tank
- It should be a pretty easy job then
- Better dipstick
- I hear ya, I just thought the simplicity of a mechanical gauge...
- If simplicity is the issue, then a sight guage is best
- Sight gauge requires access to the side of the tank... Mechanical float gauge only requires access to top.
- A surveyor once told me a sight gage doesn't meet "code"
- Sight gauge requires access to the side of the tank... Mechanical float gauge only requires access to top.
