Carb floods if I leave the fuel tap on overnight

[pete376403]

.. And wodda they make floats out of now, then.?

Plastic, for the last thirty odd years

[Ixion]

Plastic, well that's a sort of brass, ain't it.

Supoose I ought to have a look at a modern carb, can't say I've noticed the absence of brass. Don't approve of it either, how do you solder plastic, eh?

EDIT: Actually seems to have been a LOT of things happen in the last thirty years that I've not noticed , and that I dont approve of. Orere Point road sealed, plastic carbs, what else I wonder?

[xwhatsit]

Yep, plastic float. Funny magic-metal float needle. All of this in a carb design dating from 1979 (30 years ago).

Plastic floats are nice, according to my Haynes. It talks about checking for leaks, but says something along the lines of `modern plastic floats almost never develop leaks, this being a problem of traditional brass floats'. So no soldering.

Still plenty of brass though, don't fret! Main jet, needle jet emulsion tube thingie. Jet needle looks kind of brassy, don't think it is though. Pilot mixture screw.

[F5 Dave]

Good old RG50s that are a mere 20 years old had brass floats. Predictably they had a habit of falling off & running pretty rancidly as far from home as possible.

It's incredible what one finds in rural Petrol station workshops posing as soldering irons that can't get enough heat together for the job. In the Electronics industry we have pissy little irons, but never have I seen such utter shite with some sort of coil for a tip & push a button to get it to go. Bah!