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Missing Mercury

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Me tinks you are SOL... not sure what else could be used as nothing else is as heavy in a liquid state and won't match the calibration marks on the carbtune.

You could always try a few ounces of the kids BLOOD...just to see if it will work.
 
Available in the US from scientific supply houses. A quick "Where to buy Mercury" google search turned up several sources.
 
TCARTER said:
Well My Kid Did It Again. Motion Pro Carb Sync On Gs550 Sucked All The Mercury Out Of Tool. What Can Be Used To Replace The Mercury. (mercury Is Considered Haz Mat) And I Cant Seem To Find A Source To Replace It. Ie Tool Useless At This Point. Any Suggestions??????
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Throw the tool away and deny you ever had any Hg in it EVER.
 
Not sure what effect it would have on pistons, but mercury makes aluminum turn brittle.
Don't know how it works chemically but it happens very quickly.
If the pistons ever shatter or anything you might think of this...
Hopefully it all just flew through the engine and out the exhaust without really touching anything...
 
Where exactly did the Mercury go? That stuff is pretty dangerous, even touching the skin will cause mucho trouble.
 
What drhach said. Man if that happened I would be freaking out about the exhaust. Hg is some nasty stuff; in those concentrations you could be looking at LD50 territory quick.
 
I would use a thick oil and not worry about the calibrations, you are only matching the carb vacuum. If they are all the same, you're good to go.

Don't twist the grip real fast-that's what causes the mercury to go bye-bye.
 
Just found the 2nd place I'll never ride to- Cornelius "lil mercury" Oregon. Don't worry though, cuz we got the entire haz mat containment unit ready to quarantine the town until the offending heavy metal can be contained, retrieved, and disposed of properly.
 
drhach said:
Where exactly did the Mercury go? That stuff is pretty dangerous, even touching the skin will cause mucho trouble.
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I remember in science class as a kid when the teacher passed around some for us to hold in our palm and play around with! YOWZA! I don't want to think what it might've done to us.

I had an old mercury thermometer at home that broke. Now it's sitting in an airtight jar in a sealed plastic box in my garage. I don't know what to do with it. Maybe TCARTER wants to come get it to put into his mamometer. ;-)
 
emjay said:
I had an old mercury thermometer at home that broke. Now it's sitting in an airtight jar in a sealed plastic box in my garage. I don't know what to do with it. Maybe TCARTER wants to come get it to put into his mamometer. ;-)
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Call the reference desk at your local library. They can at least tell you who to call to find out.
 
I played around with a lot of mercury as a kid. My Dad brought it home from work (Aerojet Ind. in the Orangevale, CA area). It was a lot of fun to play with......Maybe that's why I'm so warped today????

















 
Dude, when I was a kid that stuff came in a standard chemistry set. Played with it 100 times.
 
Zook said:
I would use a thick oil and not worry about the calibrations, you are only matching the carb vacuum. If they are all the same, you're good to go.

Don't twist the grip real fast-that's what causes the mercury to go bye-bye.
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Is this true? Can I use like 90 wt. oil in place of Hg? Has anybody actually done this?

I lost the mercury moving, and would like to continue using the gauge.
 
drhach said:
Where exactly did the Mercury go? That stuff is pretty dangerous, even touching the skin will cause mucho trouble.
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I also played with Mercury in science class. The teacher passed it around for us to play with. This was around 1997-98. I came home and told my dad how cool it was and he was a little angry with the teacher. I asked him why (he is a chemist) and told me that mercury on the skin isn't harmful unless you are in contact with it for a long time. But if one of the students had a cut on there hands and got it into there blood stream they would have been in trouble.
 
Zook said:
I would use a thick oil and not worry about the calibrations, you are only matching the carb vacuum. If they are all the same, you're good to go.

Don't twist the grip real fast-that's what causes the mercury to go bye-bye.
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flyingace said:
Is this true? Can I use like 90 wt. oil in place of Hg? Has anybody actually done this?

I lost the mercury moving, and would like to continue using the gauge.
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I would assume so. Not having ever refiled a gauge I did use a home made guage with transmission fluid. Here is a link to the guage I made. It worked pretty well. The preoblem that you might encounter though would be that it might be easier to suck the oil back into the engine. So no quick throtle changes.
 
DMB said:
I would assume so. Not having ever refiled a gauge I did use a home made guage with transmission fluid. Here is a link to the guage I made. It worked pretty well. The preoblem that you might encounter though would be that it might be easier to suck the oil back into the engine. So no quick throtle changes.
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Motion Pros new tools use propolyene glycol, but they say you can't use this fluid in the old mercury gauges. It makes some sense since the specific gravity of mecury is over 13 and prop glyc is just over 1. Oils SG is even less than 1. I don't think the oils thickness is going to prevent it from being sucked right into the engine.

I'm wondering if I could use radiator fluid in my old guage if I restrict the size of the vacuum openings...
 
You can make your own gauges using water. I don't have them handy but there are tables available that will translate inches of mercury to inches of water. You may find that there are too many "inches" though. In other words, you manometer will be prohibitively large. I assume that as others have said, oil would work too. The higher the density, the better. I'm not sure that a heavy oil is any more dense than a lighter oil, only more viscous. As usual, I could be wrong.
 
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