On May 3, 12:47*pm, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Scott W wrote:
On Apr 10, 5:13 pm, Tudor Hughes wrote:
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
www.evershot-weather.org
* * * * 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 excellentBillReadwould be more reasonable, as Bernard suggests.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

Has anyone got an alternative address for Bill Read. I, too, am
looking for a measuring glass and have not received a reply from my
request on the virgin email address. Thank you

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Unless it's for official puproses I can never understand why people
don't just weigh it on their kitchen scales. 1g = 1ml. Then apply the
appropriate factor for your system. Far more accurate than any by eye
volume measurement.
Dave

Because I like to do things the traditional / official way. Porage on
the stove, not in the microwave etc. And my kitchen scales measure in
increments of 20g - and that would be a very rough measurement. If I
ever start drug dealing I may invest in some scales that measure out
in 1g increments...

On Thu, 3 May 2012 at 12:47:46, Dave Cornwell
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

Has anyone got an alternative address for Bill Read. I, too, am
looking for a measuring glass and have not received a reply from my
request on the virgin email address. Thank you
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Unless it's for official puproses I can never understand why people
don't just weigh it on their kitchen scales. 1g = 1ml. Then apply the
appropriate factor for your system. Far more accurate than any by eye
volume measurement.

Surely it'd cost more to buy kitchen scales with a 1 gram resolution,
than simply buying a new measuring glass...
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)