Here is an original unused dip stick. actual length is 13 and 15/16th inches long.

Boy, you learn stuff on here! Up till now,I thought a "dip stick" was someone complaining about the economy. (G)

When I saw Dip,I quickly thought someone was asking for me,but I see now that I read it all ,it says Dip Stick not Dip Sh--.So carry on folks!

Btw,was Atwater Kent a Aftermarket ignition or standard on the early Ford?
I know they built Radios.

A-K was aftermarket.

I was forced to make a gauge today to measure the amount of heating oil in my tank so that I could see if enough fuel was in there to last the winter. It is a round tank. I wrote a little spread sheet to calculate the heights for different volumes. It also works for round Model T tanks. The only way I could figure out how to make the spread sheet is using an reiterative calculation, so it take some time to run, especially the last mark. You are free to use it and modify it any way you see fit. No guarantee as to accuracy. The attachment function doesn't seem to work for Excel spreadsheets, so if interested, email me and I will send it in a return email.

Neil

My gas gauge is a "Lily White Gasoline" stick. It's marked for three types of tanks like Darel's. Does anyone know if it is an aftermarket stick? Just kinda figured it was.

Floyd, Ford didn't supply gas sticks with the cars, but some of the dealers might have done so.
I've seen a drawing on how to make one for yourself in period litterature, might have been in the Service Bulletin essentials - but I guess it was from the Fordowner magasine by Murray Fahnestock.

Atwater Kent built radios - and sold them through automotive part dealers: http://www.shorpy.com/node/5029?size=_original

$58 for an electric drill in 1924?!? well, everything wasn't better back then..
The small flyer on the shop window says: "Give Champion for Christmas"
Yep, a set of X plugs would fit in every man's stocking

Better than a dispstick:

Hello Forum, One of the lone star T's club members brought a dip stick back from the texas T-Party this past year, It was from Snyder's I guess they were giving them away?

I like all the quirks of my old T and I think the best one is the remarks I get when I get out, remove the seat and dip the tank. The general public just love to see all that sort of thing and if I put a sight gauge on the car it would take all that away. Its just like having wooden spokes, buzz coils, no windscreen wiper, no indicators and no seat belts. Etc.
My 2 bobs worth,
Rob

Here is the back of the gas dip stick

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Darel,it's a very nice piece. I have several originals,but all are used. Sorry to disrupt your thread.

I have a nice used orignal and 1 from T nuts.
But the old 1 is in my stash of old stuff here in the house and the T nuts 1 is in the shed beside the little pickup.The TT in the other shed has a nice round grey oak stick laying in a spare chassis beside it to check it's gas.I am a titewad

I'm with you Rob. Those are things that make a T, a T. I used to fly and was interested in buying a plane. I really wanted a Piper J-3 Cub. Everybody told me how dumb that was. "Get an Aeronca Champ" they'd say. "They're faster. You can solo from the front instead of the back. It has toe brakes instead of heel brakes. etc....." Funny thing is, those were all the things that I loved about the Cub. Same goes for the T.

Speaking of aircraft and dip sticks, whilst I was busy saving the world from Communist aggression whilst patrolling the pubs of London, I recall that our jet bombers stationed there all had dip sticks for checking fuel levels. They were long, wood dowels with notches encircling them at different fuel levels to hold a bit of fuel for observation. More accurate and dependable than electric instruments. The ground support equipment, i.e., APUs (Auxiliary Power Units) had dip sticks as well.
The sweet little J-3 Cub had a float that pushed a rod up through the fuel tank filler cap right in front of the windshield that indicated the level of fuel in the tank. That's sort of a dip stick too.
Bob

Not wanting to spoil an old original stick any more than it already was I found that the hardware store has these real nice hardwood sticks. They advertise paint on one side, but they forgot to mark the tank measures on the other side. Because of this cversight they will give them away when you buy a little paint.
It was no big deal to lay it next to my old stick and make lines with a ball point pen where needed. It still works after 10 yrs or more, but it is starting to get a little hard to read.
I guess I'll have tell them I need to stir up that old paint again.

RD, The problem with the gauge you have pictured above for those of us with the round tanks below the front seat is that much of the tank sits below the level of the flat floor board so any gauge sitting above the floor board would only be seen to register from the "full" to the "half full". The more important range from half full to empty would not register at all. I believe the gas tank on my '19 Touring is mounted correctly to the frame and is much lower than the one pictured in the advertisement....Michael Pawelek

What you don't see, Michael, is the little cork float below the tube and the bead on a wire that show the last couple of gallons. I left mine out, because I try not to plan my fuel management that close. When there's no gas in the sight gauge, I look for a station.

How much higher than the frame are your 19's floorboards?