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Tank Guage

zeb_3
zeb_3 Member Posts: 104
in THE MAIN WALL
scully makes a gauge that uses a float on a string. should not interfere with the existion gauge

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  • Rookie_3
    Rookie_3 Member Posts: 244
    Tank Guage

    I am looking at a tank gauge that is screwed into the tank with the vent pipe screwed into that and at approx. 4' up a 90* into that and so on until it terminates outside. Question is to replace the faulty guage is there anything other taking the run apart to get the guage out or can I cut the first pipe and get a coupling with a left hand thread on one side?

    Thanks...........ROOKIE
  • lchmb
    lchmb Member Posts: 2,997
    cut it

    I cut the riser, rethread the pipe and put in a union...simple and quick.
  • Rookie_3
    Rookie_3 Member Posts: 244


    Sounds easy and quick to me. I'm in MA and I don't see anything that says thats out of code on a vent pipe.
    Thanks.............ROOKIE
  • paul sr.
    paul sr. Member Posts: 7


    i usually pull a plug and add a second gauge. quick and cheap. paul sr.
  • lchmb
    lchmb Member Posts: 2,997
    I'm not in MA

    But I would check to make sure the vent pipe is the correct size. Not sure what they require down there but since your changing it you want to make sure it is to code...
  • Rookie_3
    Rookie_3 Member Posts: 244


    Lchmb, vent is to code.
    Paul, that was my first thought since there are two sitting there not being used but I didn't want one interfearing with the other. The fill is all the way to the left and the vent/guage next to it. My thought was that maybe the arm from the old one would catch on to the new one.

    Thanks
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