On Aug 4, 0:25, Tony Duell wrote:
> Am I the younger generation? (I date from about the time of the PDP12). I
> certainly know what a cork borer is - I've used them on many occasions.
> What on earth do people use now to fit glass tubing into corks?
They don't use corks -- they use pre-bored rubber bungs. However, the
easiest and safest way to put a thermometer into a bung is to insert a
borer first, slide the thermometer down the borer, and remove the borer
leaving the thermometer in place. One of the first things I was taught on
the lab techs course years ago (the second thing was how to deal with a kid
who has a thermometer impaled in the hand).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Mon Aug 03 1998 - 19:30:31 BST