Re: Tell me it aint so!

[EMILY COWEN <ecowen@cln.etc.bc.ca>]

Hi W.R. Gibbons!!

On Fri, 9 May 1997, W. R. Gibbons wrote:

> Filled with mercury?  Heavens, no.  It has to be filled with something a 
> great deal more volatile than mercury.

If I remember correctly, the bulb is filled with an alcohol/ether
combination.  Not methanol, and definitely not mercury... and no, I
wasn't able to repair the thing; I had to buy a new unit.

TTUL8r, Kirk Cowen