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Re: Tell me it aint so!

To: Mark Iansiti <MTI1971@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Tell me it aint so!
From: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 09:00:17 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Mark Iansiti wrote:

> Jim said...
> 
> >Also, tracing out the other way, the temp sender is mounted in the head 
> >rather than the radiator - is this normal?  The "tube" running from the 
> >temp sender is partially missing.  The manual that this thing is filled 
> >with mercury??????  Are they available?  I could not find in the Vickie 
> >catalog, nor the Mini Mania.
> >
> >Thanks for any ideas/tips
> >
> >Jim                    buckley@mesastate.edu
> >

> Is it in fact, really filled with mercury?  If it breaks on the way in, can
> a replacenment be found?  Don't mean to sound anything but 'british car
> cool', but I've had one b*tch of a day and I had put this little problem
> behind me...but I'm almost done, and I will have to deal with it, and JIM
> had to bring it up... Thanks Jim!     
> 
> At least we can both get an answer now... on the other hand, mine could go
> in without a hitch......ya, right.
> 
> Any ideas?
> Mark

Filled with mercury?  Heavens, no.  It has to be filled with something a 
great deal more volatile than mercury.

WRG

   W. R. Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                  Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                  gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8629


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