Presumably they knew about this and had a sealed system.
Anyway there'll be lots of extra mercury around with the low
light(sorry, energy) light bulbs that the political cretins are foisting on us.
Mike
At 12:09 PM 2/04/2009, you wrote:
>George Moffatt once had a system of pumping mercury in a Nimbus 3.
Wouldn't want any of that liquid metal stuff going near the metal
pushrods or fittings. Mecrucy does unpleasant things to aviation alloys.
If he had a prang, cleaning up the liquid mercury might be fun.
And isn't pumping mercury around a bit OTT anyway?
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element)
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