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Bogs, alas the fabled precision bubble factories of Guillame Von Spirit and Chesterfield-on-Meths with their great oozing vats and sparkling chimneys have long been shuttered, but fortunately I have a 3 year old niece who can produce mass quantities of bubbles using the simplest of instruments. I plan to sit down some afternoon with a micrometer and sort through them to find one that will be accurate enough for my purposes.

 
Bogstandard said:
You can't buy the bubbles any more, you have to make and graduate your own to the correct size, which is rather tricky.

Hmmm ... time for another one of Uncle Bogs' famous tutorials. ;D

Best regards,

Kludge
 
A definite YES, but they will be down side up.
So when you read the level, you have to lift the high end to centralise, whereas in the northern hemisphere (where the bubbles are made and calibrated), they work on the assumption that you raise the low end to achieve the same result.
Unless of course, you could get someone to recalibrate the bubble to work the opposite way around, and then it would save you a lot of confusion.
But you must mark the level as having a reverse acting bubble, as people that are used to working with a northern hemispherical bubble in the southern hemisphere, will become disorientated and it might cause them to become very unstable, as they won't know which end to lift up. They just might cause themselves an injury, as they try to lift both ends of the the machine at the same time.
You could buy yourself a neutral bubble, this comes with a self adhesive pad that holds the bubble firmly in the middle of the vial. But they seem to have a reputation of not being very good, as the machines always act funny when they have been set up with a neutral level, pointing to the fact that it might be the level at fault, or in the case of southern hemisphere operators, blown out of their mind on lousy beer.

Bogs

Do we really need to go on with this discussion?
 
Bogstandard said:
Do we really need to go on with this discussion?

Well, yeah. While I may never venture South of the equator, understanding the behavior of bubbles under various circumstances helps a poor yank like me get a better grasp on their functioning. Like so much else, we didn't invent bubbles but rather acquired them from our cousins in the UK so aren't aware of all their ins and outs and undecideds.

So, please do carry on.

Best regards,

Kludge ... reading and taking notes as best he can
 

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