RE: NANFA-L-- Kinda OT- Salt


Subject: RE: NANFA-L-- Kinda OT- Salt
From: Irate Mormon (archimedes at bayspringstel.net)
Date: Tue Oct 26 2004 - 23:26:35 CDT


Quoting Shane Graber <SGraber at sauder.com>:

Didn't dissolve long enough, and/or wasn't well mixed (higher concentration of
salt at the bottom of the bucket).

> That should have come out to something like 1.023 according to the IO
> packaging. I have a feeling something went wrong when making your
> calibration solution or you had bubbles on your swingarm.
>
> Shane
>
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> I added 2 gallons of springwater to a 5 gallon bucket and put in 1 cup of
> IO. It had completely dissolved although I had not airated it. Swing-arm
> hydrometers are usually Temp-compensating. I think that bubbles would make
> the reading higher, not lower. I could have made the calibration solution
> wrong but I don't think the Hydrometer would last long if it was that
> inaccurate.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
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--Irate
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: Fri Dec 31 2004 - 11:27:54 CST