14 Mar
2017
14 Mar
'17
2:59 p.m.
On Mar 14, 2017, at 5:45 PM, dwight via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
It is not likely to be made to work, easily. From what I was
told, the mercury ones needed to be rebuilt after some time.
Most likely because the mercury dissolved one of the metals
used in side.
I can't imagine what that might be and why they continued
to have such a problem but that is what I hear someplace.
Dwight
Possible, but it seems odd. Mercury dissolves lots of metals (iron is one exception),
forming alloys called amalgams. But that's well known, you would expect people making
mercury based devices to know it and avoid it.
paul