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Old April 10th 12, 05:13 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Tudor Hughes Tudor Hughes is offline
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Default Where to buy a measuring glass?

On Apr 10, 4:11*pm, Hugh Newbury wrote:
I've just broken my rainfall measuring glass (is that what it's
called?). Where's the best place to buy another, please?

Hugh

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Hugh Newbury

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When I broke mine, as one does, I got a new one from
Metcheck. It was an absurd price (£35, thirty-five quid!) and I'll be
a little wary about going there again.
You could use a common-or-garden 100 ml lab measuring
cylinder, calibrated at 12.77 ml per mm rain. You could probably get
half a dozen of these on eBay for the price I paid, with perhaps a 10
ml cylinder thrown in for small amounts of rain. The excellent Bill
Read would be more reasonable, as Bernard suggests.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.