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MG TD TF 1500 - Brass or Nitrophyl

I need to replace at least one carburetor fuel float. Should I go with Brass or spend the extra $7.00 for the Nitrophyl?

Dave
david kirkpatrick


We are all assuming David that this is more of an engineering / materials question rather than a financially based problem.

If we are wrong, many of us will have a whip round and see if we can get the cash together for you.

I am not saying we could raise the whole $7 for you. We are not made of money.

Ray Coyte

I'll search under the cushions to see it I can find some change to donate also,,,

SPW
STEVE WINCZE

Good day all:

Regarding the Brass vs Nitrophyl carburetter float, I have no thoughts as to which type is the better.

However; I just looked up the Moss cost for one, brass, carburetter float and at $ 14.95 USD I reckon it to be not such a dear amount to put out.

But, I almost had the "big one" when I saw the cost for one, float chamber (bowl)----$ 199.95 ! Holy Crap !

I am sure glad I have a few extras !

Jack Emdall, TC6768/TD3191, Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia, Canada
kernow

I would elect to go with the Nitrophyl one Dave.

That will keep it out of a land fill somewhere and at best - give you some good use.

I could chip in a thruppenny bit - if you need it

(It is rumored that it has the 12 sides so you can get it out of a Scotsman's sporran with a spanner)

:)

Rod.
R D Jones

On carburetors I rebuild, I strictly go with Nitrophyl when confronted with a leaky float.

Warmly,
dave
Dave Braun

Rod

You will have spotted that Dave Kirkpatrick has a fine Scottish name - a clan that goes back 800 years or more.

I am a mere Englishman - but you are right - getting money out of a Scotsman has always rumoured to be difficult - although all my friends who are Scottish are to a man very generous people.

It may only be $7 to you and me...but to him this is generations of ancestral pride and heritage.

If it helps my two brass floats have lasted 63 years and keep on bobbing along. However, if I were to change them I would follow the advice of Dave Braun.

Have a good weekend everyone
Ray Coyte

I prefer the brass. I did go to Moss' website to look at their float, but the web was sooooo slow and the site did not return that page in due time....

A coworker's Chevy could not be tuned up at various shops, had a rough idle. I looked down the carb watching at a steady drip, then took off the top and extracted the floats. I set them in a bowl of gas and we watched one side sink as it was "gaslogged." You couldn't tell by just looking at it, and there is no solder repair option.
JIM NORTHRUP SR

Thanks for the advice and the many offers to chip in. As to the $7.00 I’m just trying to save a couple of bucks so that I can drink a good single malt scotch like MacFarclas instead of a blend.

Dave
david kirkpatrick

I vote brass. 63 years and all is well, even with alcohol in the fuel. Why tamper with what works! Sorry Dave Braun.

C.R. Tyrell

Most of the sunken brass floats I've seen are as a result of somebody trying to pry them up with a screwdriver and cracking it. The tiniest of cracks, which takes years to take on enough fuel to sink it. I think I've seen two with failed solder joints. No, I did not try to resolder them (what could happen???).
If well taken care of, the brass should last forever. B.T.W. to remove a float, I use duck tape.
-David
D. Sander

Boy you guys are brutal! I'm with you David! I know now, never to ask that question with a cost involvement. A sip of Scotch would be the ticket though! LOL! PJ
Paul sr

Burlen Fuel Systems markets the Nitrophyl floats as Stay Up floats, but I have never been sure if it was the floats they are talking about or a comment about all the old men driving our cars :-) Cheers - Dave
David DuBois

For solving my buddy's Explorer EGR pressure sensor error with a 6" piece of tubing, he bought us a bottle of Johnny Walker Black for $40+. I just went to the same store to buy the finest Scotch money can buy, Scoresby, for just over $10 a fifth.
Mr. Kirkpatrick, do you concur with the finer taste of a 36 month age blended Scotch vs cost of a single malt (not even as tasty), and my taste of a brass float?
Price does not always represent quality.

(I just refilled our MG hip flasks for tomorrows "color tour.")

Yeah, I've been tapping it!

Cheers!
JIM NORTHRUP SR

Jim while I will admit that I have been drinking a blend tonight and playing a couple of games of pool with my son, nothing is better than a great single malt like Glen Farclas.


david kirkpatrick

Funny thing is, if we continue on this on this theme, keeping a sip at hand, come morning, we won't care what the floats are made of. Grin. PJ
Paul sr

Dave,
The nice thing about a blend is you get a bunch of single malts all at the same time!

Whatever FLOATS your boat!
JIM NORTHRUP SR

"The nice thing about a blend is you get a bunch of single malts all at the same time!"

only if it is a blended malt - just blended scotch is probably wheat or rye rather than barley.
Chris at Octarine Services

Having never heard of Scoresby, I looked it up -


"The nose is very much of grain whisky with very little evidence of any malt whisky however while it is quite one sided towards grain there are no evil notes like gasoline or strong solvents but there simply isn’t much here. The taste is middle of the road in flavour profile and tastes like whisky with some nice sweetness which is a pleasant surprise. It’s also quite vibrant but there is still little evidence of any malt. Once again there is nothing alarming in the taste. The finish has some fruit and …… some grain ( think of corn or chewing on wheat grains straight from the field). Some chewy moments towards the end and once again nothing to set off the alarm bells, actually quite a vibrant finish, not dull. Some very light green notes towards the end of the finish that is surprisingly long. There some grain in there however not a hint of the malt that must be in there somewhere. After a few minutes there’s some slight hints of NutraSweet at the very tail end of the finish."

I think I'll stay with the sing;e malts!
Chris at Octarine Services

Gentlemen gentlemen..please!

I cant help thinking we are getting off topic here.

The real issue is should David go for Brass or Nitrophyl carburetor floats.

I think we should all stay focused on this.

By his own admission we have already established he is a late night pool player with questionable parenting skills by leading his son astray whilst having a worrying drink problem.

Do we give him this $7 or not?

My view is that he has a few issues he needs to work through first.

Maybe if he stopped drinking and sold the pool table he could buy himself a complete set of both Brass and Nitrophyl floats.

All this off topic chat has quite thrown me. I think I shall have a large Laphroaig with just a dash of spring water (no ice)

Ray Coyte

Do they do Glen Farclas in a small Nitrophyl container?

That Would resolve the issue very amicably I think.

Rod
R D Jones

Actually the leaking float is on my MGA. I stole a float from my TD which was cracked and that I had repaired years ago with some strange red substance. Bottom line is that I ordered some Nitrophyl floats for both cars from Moss. As to the drinking and playing pool, my son went back to Austin yesterday so I have hung up my cue stick for a while. Concerning the drinking, well to be honest it got worse watching my Houston Texans being thrashed by San Francisco. I appreciate the offers to help pay for the floats but my son chipped in. I could however, use some help in paying my bookie, who would have thought that I needed 31 points instead of the 4 1/2.

Dave
david kirkpatrick

I went through about 4 brass floats before I found the Nitrophyl ones. I bought three so I'd have a spare... Haven't needed it though. Old habits die hard I guess.

Alex (who prefers gin) Waugh
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