springer

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not wax it would melt . Most likely an epoxy of some sort to hold the steel shot in place

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I've seen a couple other threads like this too. No one should ever buy these piece of garbage thermos. I've had two break on me. Luckily, the worst I've ever had was while boiling 10 gallons for strike water. Still a total pain in the ass to pour that all out and start over. Why does anyone sell these things to brewers? We never learn until we're totally inconvenienced. A HBS should realize this and make the logical decision to only sell metal or digital.

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I agree my man. Every tip/advice/recommendation I got from my LHBS has sucked. I have gotten all my information from HBT and trust everyone's opinion on HBT over my LHBS. Luckily only a small bit of glass broke at the top, so I will take extra caution will siphoning. But I 100% agree with you, LHBS's just seem to try and make a buck off people instead of trying to help them make some good beer (like the kind people on this forum do!)

To that, I salute each and every person on this forum!

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Gremlyn

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At least with heat fractures, the glass usually splits along a single line and doesn't shatter much, if at all. This isn't so say you shouldn't take all due caution so you don't drink glass pieces!

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The worst part is, I don't know WHEN it happened. I know it had to be sometime from cooling the wort to transferring into the carboy... so worst case would be it happened while the wort was cooling and it broke in there... if not, i'm in like flint...

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Dave11980

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I dug this up after my own thermometer break, figured I would add what I know/found.

First if your thermometer is a blue liquid like mine was it is most likely dyed isoamyl benzoate which is also an artificial berry flavoring. Still check with the manufacturer but this is harmless.

Second, glass shards. Aside from rather large sharp and easily detectable pieces glass is actually not that dangerous. Have one kid chew up a glass ornament on a Christmas tree and you will find that out. Like your beer, your body is tougher than you think.

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What if the little balls in the bottom of the thermometer have gotten into the beer? Mine broke while I was steeping my grains, luckily only a portion of the balls got into the wort. I filtered it out before the boil, but is it safe to drink. Is there any chance something could leech from the balls into the wort at temperature like that??

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Don't get your balls so close to the hot wort.

But seriously, my thermometer shattered once as well, luckily was just while heating the water so I dumped it all and started over.

Have been using a metal thermometer ever since and now have a Thermapen on the way

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