Mercury is used on gyros for ships.  Our gyro tech at work used to have a
big bottle because when you do the service on them about once a year you
remove the old mercury and replace it.  If you are near a major port you
probably have a company that does gyro service near you.

Brian Kraut
Engineering Alternatives, Inc.
www.engalt.com

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Subject: [OT] Liquid Mercury Source


Strange request here.  Does anyone know how to buy small quanities of
mercury?  I like making visually interesting things, and one of my
projects I want to do involves mercury.  But due to it's dangers, finding
anyone that is willing to sell to an individual is pretty hard.

I live in Berkeley CA so I thought I could find a chemical supply place
locally, but no such luck so far.  Also I don't need 99.999999% purity
at $500 an ounce either, as it's just going to be used because it's shiny.

I am aware of it's dangers and plan on sealing it air tight and am not
going to be pouring any lefovers in the drain or putting it out in the
trash.

If I find enough, I'll be making something with a PIC to control it and
will post pictures. :-)

Thanks!

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