Re: Coat the float?

[David Stanton]

I put a wine cork into a single line OMC gas tank to replace the float for the gauge. It was real cork. It sunk after about a week.

Wine bottles are stored on their side to keep the cork wet so it does soak up some wine, if the wine cork doesn’t soak up some, it dries out and shrinks and the wine goes bad when air gets in. The reason wine does not soak through to the top of the cork is that it is highly compressed in the bottle, blocking off soaking much past the end in the bottle – like keeping a sponge tightly squeezed.
Dave