[TheForge] Way OT -- remote thermometer for river water

[peter fels]

Hah..Stylish too!
Ferget my bucket proposal.


On Apr 22, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:

> 
> You have lab thermometers and 1-1/2" transparent, rigid tubing?
> 
> Put the thermometer through holes in a couple of corks that fit the
> tube.  Insert the corks/thermometer assy. into the tube, leaving an
> inch clearance on each end so the glass thermometer is fully inside
> the tube and thus protected.  Cement the corks in place if the fit
> isn't real snug.  Plug the bottom of the tube with something that
> includes ballast -- lead shot, iron bar or whatever -- just sufficient
> to sink the tube and cement it in place.  Attach a bail of heavy wire
> and a swivel to the top of the tube.
> 
> All same as the bucket but more easily packable, won't risk busting
> your thermometer, can be read through the side of the tube and looks
> like a cool scientical instrooment.
> 
> The addition of waterproof batteries and LEDs for nighttime use is
> left as an exercise for the reader.
> 
> ObSmithing: The bottom of the ballast should have a gargoyle face
> forged into it.  Micro-Al-Paley-esque curlicues on the hand-wrought
> bail?
> 
> 
> FWIW,
> 
> -- 
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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