Is this fixable?

[MashBag]

I have tapped bubbles out but...

 

[Sadfield]

Have you tried going full Pete Townsend on it?

 

[The Baron]

Long time ago when I was a wee lad at school I thought I had been told to take it upto its top temp and then it should bring down the red liquid at the top or am I just reminiscing when all politicians were honest?

 

[Sadfield]

https://novalynx.com/store/pc/Rejoi...in,has sufficient clearance from obstructions.

 

[soupdragon]

I have tapped bubbles out but...

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I thought mine was bad enough with a 2 degree bit of red measurement stuff at the other end of a 6 inch gap. That looks proper fooked

Cheers Tom

 

[MashBag]

I thought mine was bad enough with a 2 degree bit of red measurement stuff at the other end of a 6 inch gap. That looks proper fooked

Cheers Tom

I am with you

@Sadfield Found the link above too, I have recovered those types of issues myself before. This is a bit more extreme.

Push everthing into the expansion bubble (boil) is normally the way to cure these, but there isn't anywhere to go this time.

I might nuke a jar of jam.

 

[peebee]

@MashBag: Why couldn't you have just dropped it, like I did a few months ago? You then have no choice but get a new one, sobbing at the loss of your treasured thermometer loss of twenty quid. It'll be a new "electronic" one (what happened to the glass ones?) but you can get a very accurate certified one (sort of folding pen-knife design, designed for "barbeques" apparently).

Big display, almost (?) unbreakable, almost instant display of temperature. You soon get over the loss of fragile glass thermometer (I'd had mine for fifty years, ever since I'd nicked it from the science labs at school). I'll bury the fragments of broken glass thermometer with all the broken glass hydrometers!

The new "electronic" thermometers have very sharp probes! I suggest you refrain from using it as a rectal thermometer.

 

[MashBag]

Oooo never thought of poking it in there to fix it.