Scotch brass floats compared to OEM - Weight Measurement
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Scotch brass floats compared to OEM - Weight Measurement
2 days 11 hours ago
2025-11-23 Scotch Brass Floats weighed against OEM
I'm curious about how Scotch float compared to an OEM float, weight wise.
Turns out, pretty much the same.No particular order, Scotch float #2 is 11 g.
The same for float number three.
Float number one was 1 g less, measuring at 10 g.
It was obvious number one was a different batch, an earlier batch.
Two and three looks much better from a builder perspective.
Here is the stock quote, 11 g.
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I'm curious about how Scotch float compared to an OEM float, weight wise.
Turns out, pretty much the same.No particular order, Scotch float #2 is 11 g.
The same for float number three.
Float number one was 1 g less, measuring at 10 g.
It was obvious number one was a different batch, an earlier batch.
Two and three looks much better from a builder perspective.
Here is the stock quote, 11 g.
The end.
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Re: Scotch brass floats compared to OEM - Weight Measurement
11 hours 47 minutes ago
"Float number one was 1 g less, measuring at 10 g.
It was obvious number one was a different batch, an earlier batch.
Two and three looks much better from a builder perspective."
I guess this was inevitable so it's time to get ahead of the potential controversy and come clean. I don't actually make the floats.
I have an arrangement with a Chinese vegetable farmer who makes them as a "side-gig" for $1.00 (CDN) per piece, including shipping !
Don: Heat them gently with a plumbers-torch - they'll pop apart and inside you'll find your "Fortune" !
It was obvious number one was a different batch, an earlier batch.
Two and three looks much better from a builder perspective."
I guess this was inevitable so it's time to get ahead of the potential controversy and come clean. I don't actually make the floats.
Don: Heat them gently with a plumbers-torch - they'll pop apart and inside you'll find your "Fortune" !
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Re: Scotch brass floats compared to OEM - Weight Measurement
8 hours 48 minutes agoAbsolutely correct, Sir KB! It's called buoyancy and leverage, working across the needle and seat (Pressure = Force / Area).Call me stupid but I see Don's scale only reads in 1 gram increments, so 10.0 grams - 10.4 grams would read 10 grams and 10.5 grams - 10.9 grams would read 11 grams, so if all 3 floats were in and around 10 - 11 grams, it would make sense that some could read 10 and some could read 11. ( This should not be a secret to an instrumentation technician) Soldering up the joints on handcrafted floats and some floats might need slightly more solder to seal them up and that would account for the slight difference.
Now "my scale" only has a range of 1 gram - 300 grams and reads out in 1/10 gram increments. I paid $250 for it back in 1985. I wanted more accuracy for blueprinting engines.
Bottom line- a difference of +- 1 gram is inconsequential. When the float level is set, all 3 floats will do their job and maintain the float at set level.
I hope no one read my posting intentions incorrectly - I was just curious and damn amazed Sir Scotch could be so consistent with a hand made product, even if it's made in a rice patched hut in China!
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