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Any alternative to expensive OAT thermometers

Alex Clark

Alex Clark

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Life Long Alaskan
Spruce wants something like 80 bucks for a darn through the window dial thermometer. Any ideas on another source that does not have the airplane word mark-up? I need a couple.
 

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On my PA-18A and then PA-12 I had something like this velcroed to the interior wing panel. Ran the probe out and stuck to bottom of wing root fairing with RTV. Once a year changed the AAA battery.

Gary
 

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BC12D-4-85 said:
On my PA-18A and then PA-12 I had something like this velcroed to the interior wing panel. Ran the probe out and stuck to bottom of wing root fairing with RTV. Once a year changed the AAA battery.

Gary
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That made me think about the app. Attach a probe where you want and just look at your phone when you need a reading. No wires that way.

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I prefer minimal distraction in the windows.....if I see something it want it to not be part of my plane and maybe another = see and avoid. Removing thermometers and replacing with something that's not blocking vision is why I went to the sensing units hung somewhere else. Plus spiders can find another home that way.

Gary
 
BC12D-4-85 said:
I prefer minimal distraction in the windows.....if I see something it want it to not be part of my plane and maybe another = see and avoid. Removing thermometers and replacing with something that's not blocking vision is why I went to the sensing units hung somewhere else. Plus spiders can find another home that way.

Gary
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Plus the broken windows from snagging your jacket them.

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