Jerry Wass wrote:
Heck, my first thought was to take the gas gage & sendin unit out of my
'56 chevy , mount the sendin unit inside with some gears outa of my old
alarm clock-(spring busted) sos you get full travel outa the sender with
only ten or 20 degrees motion hang a n aluminium vane on the end of it &
a fishin sinker forward of it to balance it-You could keep the sinker
inside for essthetic reasons. ut then---this was jest my 1st thot--Jerry


That's essentially how a vane type works.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired