Yes I know . For what they cost chuck it and get another, thing is I am curious.
One of those old type glass bulb thermometers filled with some sort of spirit and all the spirit is at the top end, none at all at the bottom in the bulb. How do you get the spirit back where it belongs?
By contacting a spirit guide?
:-)
In article , Harry Bloomfield writes
Have you tried shaking it down nursie style?
My next step would be an attempt at a (balanced) centrifuge bodged onto the chuck of a cordless drill/driver.
Sticking in the freezer if you're lucky?
David
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Harry Bloomfield saying something like:
I had similar recently. Froze it and heated it alternately; eventually it consolidated and got back to normal.
6ft of string, whirl it round your head until centrifugal force does the trick.
Assuming it is at the "hot" end then heat it right up until it fills the tube? Then let it cool down the right way up.
I already tried that, but it didn't budge - but thanks.
It happens that Geo formulated :
I have used that method before and it usually end with them bursting, but it worked this time - thanks.
nah. SHAKE it down. that's how it works with a clinical thermometer..
Needs to be mercury (denser) for that.
Cycling through temperature is the usual way with spirit, but don't pop the top off.
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