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Offline Lazy Ant Brewing

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Malfunction Junction
« on: June 19, 2015, 08:18:02 am »
When I went to take a hydrometer sample, I found I had a crack in the base of my two-piece (i.e. screw-on base) hydrometer tube.  Poured the sample in and it ran out the base in a 1/8 inch stream.

Back to the LHBS for another.  Has anyone else encountered this problem or am I the only unlucky guy in the brewing universe?
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Offline morticaixavier

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Re: Malfunction Junction
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2015, 08:20:24 am »
yup. it happens. they're cheap plastic
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Offline brewinhard

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Re: Malfunction Junction
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2015, 11:52:00 am »
Things like that ALWAYS happen at the most inopportune time during the brewday.  Keeping doubles of some things around the brewhouse is a must (hydrometers being one of them).