Hydometer leaked?

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Ti28

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Has anyone else had a Hydrometer leak water into it on them? I wanted to sanitize it to take a gravity reading, so I submerged into cleaner for a few minutes and went back to it, notice the thing wasn't floating where it should be. Look and there is a little bit of water inside of it.

I would take a "wild guess" here and say it's trashed now. God damn scrape!
 
You're right. A hydrometer that takes on a little liquid isn't going to do you much good. Haven't had that happen to me, but I suppose it only takes a little crack somewhere to allow that to happen.
 
Yeah, it blows I'm in the middle of a batch and this happens. It's not even a week old, time to look for a good one; not plastic.
 
Do yourself a huge favor and spend the extra money on a refractometer. You wont need to fill a sample jar and wait for it to cool anymore. Just a couple drops and it instantly tells you the OG. You'd still need a hydrometer to measure FG, but for pre-pitched wort you cant beat it.
 

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