Ever try this

[sly22guy]

Anyone ever try one of these for wine?

 

[Duster]

what the heck is it? it looks like an angle finder

 

[Julie]

LOL, ok I'll bite, what is that? And do we need something from the ocean for our wine?

 

[cpfan]

You guys should learn to use Google (or Yahoo) search.

It's an aquarium hydrometer.

http://www.instantocean.com/sites/instantocean/products/productdetail.aspx?id=1294&cid=957

The web page doesn't indicate what range it measures, or the price.

sly22guy:

How much does it cost? A wine hydrometer is under $10. But if you're prone to breaking hydrometers, it looks like this one is plastic.

Steve

 

[Julie]

You guys should learn to use Google (or Yahoo) search.

It's an aquarium hydrometer.

http://www.instantocean.com/sites/instantocean/products/productdetail.aspx?id=1294&cid=957

The web page doesn't indicate what range it measures, or the price.

sly22guy:

How much does it cost? A wine hydrometer is under $10. But if you're prone to breaking hydrometers, it looks like this one is plastic.

Steve

LOL, we don't need to learn to use google or yahoo we have you Steve,

 

[woodsxdragon]

http://www.aquariumguys.com/instantocean.html?gdftrk=gdfV2226_a_7c1209_a_7c5174_a_7c198151
$6.49 "1.000 to 1.032 in .002 increments except in the safe zone there it is in .0001 increments (specific gravity), 0 to 40 PPT in increments of 2 (salinity)."

 

[Tom]

http://www.aquariumguys.com/instantocean.html?gdftrk=gdfV2226_a_7c1209_a_7c5174_a_7c198151
$6.49 "1.000 to 1.032 in .002 increments except in the safe zone there it is in .0001 increments (specific gravity), 0 to 40 PPT in increments of 2 (salinity)."

Well there you go.
It only reads up to 1.032. Kinda useless if you need to have another hydrometer to measure gravity above 1.032

 

[djrockinsteve]

But does it come complete with Sea Monkey's?

 

[BobF]

I would rather have a standard hydrometer that's short enough to float in a 3g batch in a 5g primary!!

Not usually a problem until gravity starts getting close to 1000

 

[sly22guy]

My bad i thought it had a higher range! But man if this had a better range that would be nice.

 

[Malkore]

Those are horribly inaccurate too. I had one, and a refractometer, and a bulb hydrometer. Guess which $6 piece of plastic junk was WAY off?