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

Bill is a good source of this sort of thing Hugh. Otherwise a quick search
on Google will find other sources I am sure.

Bill Read (Instruments)
E-mail Address(es):




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Bernard Burton

Wokingham Berkshire.

Weather data and satellite images at:
http://www.woksat.info/wwp.html

"Hugh Newbury" wrote in message
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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

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 excellent Bill
Read would be more reasonable, as Bernard suggests.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 at 16:11:25, Hugh Newbury
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

I've just broken my rainfall measuring glass (is that what it's
called?). Where's the best place to buy another, please?

I use the Metcheck website

http://www.metcheck.co.uk/acatalog/home.html
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

On 10/04/12 16:11, 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?

Thanks all for your help.

Hugh

"Hugh Newbury" wrote in message ...

On 10/04/12 16:11, 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?

Thanks all for your help.

Hugh


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Wouldn't a pint glass from your local hostelry serve the purpose. An hour or
two with a glass etcher would add the necessary graduations, and on those
hot afternoons you experience in that part of the country it could be used
for it's intended purpose. Cheers!

jim, Northampton

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 at 00:05:46, jbm wrote in
uk.sci.weather :

"Hugh Newbury" wrote in message ...

On 10/04/12 16:11, 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?

Thanks all for your help.

Hugh


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Wouldn't a pint glass from your local hostelry serve the purpose.

Only until you sobered up...
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

On 11/04/12 00:05, jbm wrote:
"Hugh Newbury" wrote in message ...

On 10/04/12 16:11, 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?

Thanks all for your help.

Hugh


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Wouldn't a pint glass from your local hostelry serve the purpose. An
hour or two with a glass etcher would add the necessary graduations, and
on those hot afternoons you experience in that part of the country it
could be used for it's intended purpose. Cheers!

Jim, in my present clumsy state I would be certain to drop that too!

Otherwise an excellent idea, seeing as how I live next door to the
village pub!

Hugh

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

--

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

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
--
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