[sdiy] DONT TOUCH

[Dave Magnuson]

At 02:24 PM 3/2/02 -0500, matti wrote:
>On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 LBC40X at aol.com wrote:
>
>> in regards to my mercury tilt switch idea...instead of mounting them to be
>*snip*
>
>Someone's already mentioned an EPA superfund site. Just how easy is it to
>break these things?


Depends on what you buy... Like everything there ae expensive ones and
cheap ones.  Cheaper ones will have much thinner glass.

Oh, just figured I'd add this:  Make friends with someone in the
heating/cooling business.  I used to do that for a living and most
thermostats have a mecury switch in them... We were constantly replacing
old stats and I could have gotten 2 or 3 a week indefinitely.  

Some companies may like to old thermostats to you... it's a little
expensive to dispose of the mercury, so if they can give it to you for
free, they will.  

Dave

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