Hydrometer slipped out of my fingers......

[dwhite60]

..... putting it in the test tube.

Pulled it out and it wasn't broken, thankfully.

After a little while I noticed a puddle forming around the test tube base.

Turns out the hydrometer broke the bottom out of the test tube. Great.

Never expected this to happen especially as thin as the glass is on the actual hydrometer .

All the Best,
D. White

 

[Jag75]

Now we need a broken test tube thread lol. I know a guy and his motto is 2 is 1 and 1 is none . That's one tough hydrometer though

 

[dwhite60]

Never expected to break the tube before the hydrometer. I've had this hydrometer well over twenty years. Too tough to die.

All the Best,
D. White

 

[day_trippr]

I also have my first and only triple-scale hydro, now 16 years. But I have broken four test cylinders - first was glass and the rest acrylic - which turned out to be only slightly more durable than glass for minor impacts, and shatter into almost as many pieces when dropped. Woof.

I don't use the hydro often any more as most of what I brew are repeats and ridiculously predictable. If there's an important metric (last few points of fermentation for last dry hop addition) I use my refract...which for some reason I've never dropped...

Cheers!

 

[Dave Sarber]

I have 3 hydrometers and test jars, (test jars, 2 glass and 1 plastic) and 2 refractometers, basically as insurance against breakage. Knocking on wood, haven't broke any yet.
Edit: I was just thinking about it, and can't remember the last time I used a refractometer, use the hydrometer almost exclusively.

 

[dwhite60]

I have 3 hydrometers and test jars, (test jars, 2 glass and 1 plastic) and 2 refractometers, basically as insurance against breakage. Knocking on wood, haven't broke any yet.
Edit: I was just thinking about it, and can't remember the last time I used a refractometer, use the hydrometer almost exclusively.

I use my refractometer for anything pre-fermentation.

Hydrometer is for terminal gravity check.

All the Best,
D. White