| Joined: Feb 2025 Posts: 6 Likes: 1 Member | Member Joined: Feb 2025 Posts: 6 Likes: 1 | I’m looking for a Cessna 150 Fuel dipstick. I understand years ago someone used to make them for the club but stop making them approximately six years ago. If you don’t have one to sell, could I make arrangements for someone to mark the usable fuel increments on a wooden dowel. Thank you for your for whatever help you can provide.John Hattayer. | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 15,915 Likes: 1005 Member/15,000 posts | Member/15,000 posts Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 15,915 Likes: 1005 | Hi John, Where in CT are you located?
Ron Stewart N5282B KSFZ | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 25,459 Likes: 1006 Member/25,000 posts | Member/25,000 posts Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 25,459 Likes: 1006 | Hi John, Where in CT are you located? I did a search of the FAA Pilot Database and there's a match in Plainfield, CT. | | | | Joined: Feb 2025 Posts: 6 Likes: 1 Member | Member Joined: Feb 2025 Posts: 6 Likes: 1 | Ron, I keep my aircraft (N704VL) at Wyndham Airport (KIJD). Hung is correct, I live in Plainfield, Connecticut. | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 15,915 Likes: 1005 Member/15,000 posts | Member/15,000 posts Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 15,915 Likes: 1005 | Ron, I keep my aircraft (N704VL) at Wyndham Airport (KIJD). Hung is correct, I live in Plainfield, Connecticut. Just a little west of me at KSFZ North Central in RI. In case you missed my other reply to your other post check out This Threadfron 2020. I have a fuel stick for a 152 that would work but you would need to fudge the numbers slightly buy 1 gal per side. You are welcome to it for the price of a cop of coffee at Dunks.
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Ron Stewart N5282B KSFZ | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 25,459 Likes: 1006 Member/25,000 posts | Member/25,000 posts Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 25,459 Likes: 1006 | I have a fuel stick for a 152 that would work but you would need to fudge the numbers slightly by .25 gal per side. I think that should be close enough. If a plane burns 6 gal/hr, then .5 gal (.25 gal per side) will run the engine for about 5 minutes. If someone plans their fuel down to 5 minutes, he/she is a much better pilot than I am. | 1 member likes this:
Ron Stewart | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 15,915 Likes: 1005 Member/15,000 posts | Member/15,000 posts Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 15,915 Likes: 1005 | I have a fuel stick for a 152 that would work but you would need to fudge the numbers slightly by .25 gal per side. I think that should be close enough. If a plane burns 6 gal/hr, then .5 gal (.25 gal per side) will run the engine for about 5 minutes. If someone plans their fuel down to 5 minutes, he/she is a much better pilot than I am. Hung, my math was wrong. A 150 has 22.5 usable and a 152 has 24.5. It’s 1 gallon per side so 2 gallons total. So at 6 gallons per hour fuel burned would mean 20 minutes
Ron Stewart N5282B KSFZ | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 25,459 Likes: 1006 Member/25,000 posts | Member/25,000 posts Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 25,459 Likes: 1006 | Hung, my math was wrong. A 150 has 22.5 usable and a 152 has 24.5. It’s 1 gallon per side so 2 gallons total. So at 6 gallons per hour fuel burned would mean 20 minutes But in the Club Newsletter with the article about fuel sticks (attached in the other thread from John), at the end of Page 7 it said "What about using a 152 FuelHawk tube on a Cessna 150? Ironically, the 152 FuelHawk is more precise on a 150 than it is on a 152", along with a table of data to back up that statement. So, one could use the 152 Fuel Hawk stick on a 150 with fairly accurate results. | 1 member likes this:
Ron Stewart | | | | Joined: Apr 2018 Posts: 427 Likes: 33 Member/250+posts | Member/250+posts Joined: Apr 2018 Posts: 427 Likes: 33 | But in the Club Newsletter with the article about fuel sticks (attached in the other thread from John), at the end of Page 7 it said "What about using a 152 FuelHawk tube on a Cessna 150? Ironically, the 152 FuelHawk is more precise on a 150 than it is on a 152", along with a table of data to back up that statement. So, one could use the 152 Fuel Hawk stick on a 150 with fairly accurate results. I’ve been using the aluminum club fuel stick on my 150 with standard tanks, and just subtracting one gal off whatever number I measure, and it equates quite well to usable, since full-to-the-neck is 11.25 usable in a (typical) 150. I guess I could use the normal numbers and then subtract at the end, but my caveman brain likes to do the hard part first. | | | | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 1,280 Likes: 202 Member/1000+posts | Member/1000+posts Joined: May 2004 Posts: 1,280 Likes: 202 | Could one just drain all useable fuel and then add fuel one gallon each side, so two gallons at a time, and mark a wooden stick in one gallon increments? I would think this should work with the airplane sitting in a wings level position. If one gallon is added in each tank and a few moments allowed to self level, it should be very accurate. You could close the fuel valve to stop the tanks from feeding each other and the fuel self leveling, throwing off the readings. Then just fill one tank and take the measurements. But, it might be more accurate, no chance of fuel valve allowing some internal leakage, if each tank was filled one gallon at a time and they self level through the fuel valve.
Am I missing something that would make this idea not work?
Eric Olson Portland, OR N7165F 1966 Cessna C-150F Troutdale, OR (KTTD) Hangar C1 John 14:21
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