Look what I found (Flue Cure Thermometer)

[Ben Brand]

I found this old brass thermometer holder in some boxes I had from years ago. It gives the temps for colouring, colour fixing. leaf drying and midrib drying.

 

[AmaxB]

Re: Look what I found

I like that ----A LOT!

 

[chuditch]

Re: Look what I found

NICE!

 

[Cigar]

Re: Look what I found

Very nice!!

 

[bonehead]

i never saw one of those. i wonder how old it is.

 

[CobGuy]

Cool piece of Tobacciana ... congrats!

 

[wrapper]

Very cool Ben. All in those foreign Fahrenheit thingymajigs?

 

[bonehead]

Very cool Ben. All in those foreign Fahrenheit thingymajigs?

beer recipes with celsius screw with me a little but it is usually worth it in the end.

 

[Ben Brand]

beer recipes with celsius screw with me a little but it is usually worth it in the end.

Anything to do with alcohol is worth it!!!

 

[squeezyjohn]

beer recipes with celsius screw with me a little but it is usually worth it in the end.

I know which one I prefer to use! Let me see - the one randomly based on 0º being the freezing point of a 50:50 brine solution and 96º (nearly 100!) being approximately human body temperature ... or the one where 0º is freezing point and 100º is boiling point of just plain water.

Here in the UK we still use a lot of imperial measures like pints, feet, inches and miles because they make more sense despite the official measures being metric ... but seriously ... nobody uses Fahrenheit anymore.

 

[Ben Brand]

Squeezyjohn here in SA we measure temp in C since I can remember. I wonder if we ever used Fahrenheit.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

In Alberta:

Beer, meat, bread, tobacco, fever, heat treatment of steel, the temperature inside a house = fahrenheit
The temperature outside a house, physics calculations, chemistry, talking to people under thirty = celcius
The distance between rural roads, and hunting distances = miles
Everything else = kilometers
Pipe and lumber, the height of a person = inches
Physics, Enbridge = centimeters
Beer = pints
Wine, coffee, and liquor = ounces
The weight of a person, food, or automobile = pounds
Physics, the weight of a commodity = kilograms
Milk and water = millilitres
Baking, and drugs = either

 

[squeezyjohn]

ChinaVoodoo - that sounds about the same as over here which is comforting! Apart from a persons weight which is always measured in stones ... Don't ask me why, a stone is 14lbs ... Oh and the height of people is measured in feet and inches, but the height of horses are always measured in hands (a hand is 4")

the only time people ever use Farenheit is when it gets hot people still refer to the temperature being in the 70s or 80s - but they'll then say it was 28°!!!!