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Subject:Re: fresh water level sensor
From:David Beierl
Date:Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:38:44 -0400

At 06:26 PM 3/24/2011, george jannini wrote:
>   And here i thought it was only me who could break one of those-

BWAHAHAHAHAHA...I've seriously recommended that people totally remove
those senders before washing out the inside of the tank.  Back in the
day I fixed four or so of them, just posted a link to photos of the
last one.  That was a good deal more elaborate than the others.

>   Anyone else ever have a waterlogged float?  My "There, I Fixed It"
>repair for that is simple as a strip of styrofoam off a coffee cup
>wrapped around that rascal and held on with a rubber band.

Nice.  If you want to get elegant you might try drilling a little
hole top and bottom and blowing it like an egg, then sealing it all
up.  But lucky you, the leak is probably on the inner seam, hard to reach.

Yrs,
d