Gauging interest. lab grade thermometers
- Thread starter five.five-six
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CW from the OC
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Ah, Ali's, nice. Thanks 556!
five.five-six
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yea, RC is sort o funny about GBs I guess they have had problems in the past.
my spredsheed its at work, I will double check for you monday night
you guys have been great and made this NP
there are only 5 left and I think 2 of those are sold
five.five-six
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john, yes i have you down for 2 PAID
texsun, got you down for one as well shipping to torrance
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and yes, the other thread got closed down and went *poof*
the whole idea came from a discussion in a sponsors fourm (about calibrating controllers) where it morphed into a GB, which I guess, having a GB isn a sponsor's fourm on RC is a NO NO
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Mickey
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I tried to respond to the PM response you sent me the other day but I'm getting a message that you are no longer accepting PM's. Very odd.
I'm still in for 2 plus 2 cases. But, can you respond to this thread just to confirm that the deal is still good? Sorry to be paranoid but I though the message about no longer taking PM's or no longer allowed to get PM's was a bit strange.
PayPal will be sent right away, along with my name and mailing address.
thanks.
Mickey
I'm still a bit worried about the max reading of 80 degrees when that's where I keep my tank, but I'm sure I can figure a way around it. thanks again for all your efforts.
I'm still in for 2 plus 2 cases. But, can you respond to this thread just to confirm that the deal is still good? Sorry to be paranoid but I though the message about no longer taking PM's or no longer allowed to get PM's was a bit strange.
PayPal will be sent right away, along with my name and mailing address.
thanks.
Mickey
I'm still a bit worried about the max reading of 80 degrees when that's where I keep my tank, but I'm sure I can figure a way around it. thanks again for all your efforts.
Posted for five.five-six, who is no longer able to respond:
Ok the good the bad and the ugly
Good:
They showed up today, I got a chance to play around with them. I tested
10 and they were all +/- 0.05 degrees except 1, which was off by just over
0.1 degrees, so I am going to test them all, and any that are more than
0.05 off from the mean will be sold somewhere else. Do not worry, there
are more than enough to cover every prepaid order how ever if you just
pm'd me "I'll take one" and were going to pay when you P/U over at Ali's,
you may not want to be the last to pick up, there were 10 of you, but
not to worry, there are 4 left plus 2 I held in reserve and at a 10%
substandard rate, we will be fine
Bad:
Turns out my ACIII was reading my tank to be .6 degrees cooler than it is
and my JBJ artica chiller was reading 1.5 degrees cooler
Ugly:
The armor cases do not fit the 17F and it appears that there are none
available that do. I have contacted the vendor who is contacting VEE GEE
to see if they have an armor that works
a) After using these, it turns out that it would be much simpler to read
them without the armor on, there is a slide marker that would not fit
under the armor. What I found worked well was to submerge the
thermometer, and then rotate it to the best angle to read it, and then
slide the marker to mark your reading, then read the marker
b) we had a discussion about using metal armor in the reef chemistry
forum, while the consensus was that it is safe for short term calibration,
prudence would dictate calibrating in a separate container and not
risking contamination
c) they come in a decent plastic container, and if handled carefully,
should last a lifetime
So unless there are any serious objections, I am going to return
everyone’s money on the armor, via paypal, and start shipping this week.
If you wish to opt out of the GB because of this, LMK ASAP and I will
honor that as well
I can be contacted at the paypal address that you sent the money to
Mark
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Scissorhand
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you can contact him on socalireefs by the same name.
