interesting find at work

[vinniel]

I work in a hopsital and we have plastic graduated cylinders that will work great for measuring exact amounts of fluids like fork oil etc. they measure in CC's and ML's i will definitely have to put some to use. If any of you has family or friends working in a hospital these cylinders a great to have.

[JZ67]

perhaps you should 'liberate' a bunch and offer them to KR members?

[vinniel]

I will begin acquiring them without getting myself fired LOL and i would be happy to help out the members here with something useful I will let you all know when i have a good amount of them.

[Black_peter]

I have used flasks, graduated cylinders, syringes but my favorite is still:

[steves]

Stockphoto? That's an interesting way to measure

[vinniel]

He He that works too! I figure the graduated cylinders at work hold a lot of fluid.

[squiggy]

You can also get gratuated cylinders at a local photo supply store. One that carries darkroom equipment.

Since I have not used my darkroom in a couple years, I figured if I contaminate the plastic graduate with oil it will be no big deal since I don't use it anymore for it's purpose.

[rexazz2]

I have liberated a couple glass measuring cups from the kitchen , they work really well for mixing fuel and lawn chemicals as well and are glass so super easy to clean

[baddkat]

why not buy plastic paint mixing cups at the local parts store? They have more markings than you'll ever need and probably go for about 50cents each, and nobody gets fired.

[hardlydangerous]

measuring cups and baby bottles from the dollar store works good to

[squiggy]

Plus you realy don't need to measure out x-amount of mL of oil in a device to pour into the fork. What's more important is measuring x-amount of mm of air space from the top of the fork.

You could just adjust the fork oil level guage to 4 inches, in my case. Then put a piece of masking tape on the outside of the fork as to where the internal oil level should be. Pour in the oil from the manufacture's bottle up to the masking tape and use the oil guage level to suck out the oil to achive the proper height.

[loudnlow7484]

hmm, I wouldn't mind having a graduated syringe...... I can't find the combustion chamber volume for a pre98 750 anywhere (or an 88-89 GSXR750). Maybe I'll go bribe some nice hospital worker to hook me up.

[katanawarrior]

The hospital supplies, baby bottles, and measuring cups will all come in handy next time i got to do some painting :

[StevieB]

Graduated cylinders are great, but you can save alot of money if you buy the ones that dropped out...

And if you are serious about quality and savings, the ABD cylinders are the way to go!

[squiggy]

Graduated cylinders are great, but you can save alot of money if you buy the ones that dropped out...

booo...I was one click away from posting:

what do you mean "dropped out cylinders" then I realized what you meant. I was thinking there was a new kind available.