water level, boiler

[Emfinger]

hello,
My little 1.5 scale 7.5" gauge 2-4-2 has a water glass that is difficult to see. Anyone know of something electrical or magic that I can use. It isn't helpful that I only have one eye.
Thank you
Tom

[Marty_Knox]

Try lighting it and put something with contrasting stripes behind it.

[cbrew]

hi Marty, is that stripping on the glass or behind?

[Greg_Lewis]

Mine is also hard to see and I'm going to get a little mirror like a small makeup mirror and glue a magnet to the back and stick it on the front end of the tender at an angle such that I'll see the glass straight on. Thus I can just look down into the miror instead of leaning over like a contortionist.

[Fender]

Some people have put a white plastic ball in the glass that floats on top of the water.

[Pontiacguy1]

If you put the white plastic ball in there, make sure that you fix it so that it can't jam in or block off the hole on either end of the glass.

[Marty_Knox]

hi Marty, is that stripping on the glass or behind?

It is a plate behind the glass.

[Bill Shields]

I put a polypropylene ball inside of mine...if floats and can be seen from yards away.