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  Measuring Devices for Liquids: Hydrometers

  Posted by distillateur on January 2, 2011 at 5:32 pm

  does anyone have a source for hydrometers, density meters and thermometers for tax determination?

  anton paar replied 14 years ago 8 Members · 7 Replies
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  bwfiggins

  Member

  January 2, 2011 at 5:57 pm

  does anyone have a source for hydrometers, density meters and thermometers for tax determination?

  Hi Colin, try these:

  http://www.nova-techusa.com for thermometers and Bellwether hydrometers, and

  http://www.anton-paar.com for their DMA-35 densitometer, it’s just tops!

  A happy and prosperous new year to you!

  Rusty

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  will

  Member

  January 2, 2011 at 7:36 pm

  H-B Instrument is the Cal-Lab that TTB uses for their own stuff. They manufacture hydrometers and thermometers. They will sell direct to Basic Permit holders. Nova-Tech is a reseller of Bellwether hydrometers.

  Alcohol Proof Hydrometers The IRS types are the 6400 series…0.2%.

  Higher Precision Hydrometers These are 0.1%.

  There’s also a waste alcohol hydrometer that’s 0-5 proof in another section.

  This is the thermometer you’ll want to use to check calibration of other thermometers – it’s expensive: NIST Traceable Mercury

  This is your working thermometer It’s full immersion, and 0.5% of scale.

  You likely do not need a full set of hydrometers. Tax determination (bottling) is the time when you really need the high accuracy of precision hydrometers and thermometers. You can spend less than $500 for everything that’s essential.

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  frewing

  Member

  January 2, 2011 at 11:20 pm

  Hi Colin, try these:

  http://www.nova-techusa.com for thermometers and Bellwether hydrometers, and

  http://www.anton-paar.com for their DMA-35 densitometer, it’s just tops!

  A happy and prosperous new year to you!

  Rusty

  Rusty – The web site for Novatech doesn’t have a – between Nova and Tech

  the correct web address is http://www.novatechusa.com

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  clearwaterbrewer

  Member

  November 29, 2014 at 9:51 pm

  FYI – the listed thermometers seem to have gone end-of-life (maybe due to the mercury?) I found these to be what I would replace with: the 20476:H-B Instrument # 3/412430 to 124°F DURAC Plus Partial Immersion Liquid-in-Glass Thermometer, with a NIST Traceable Calibration Certificate Novatech B60205-0700 $261.20 the 20470:H-B Instrument # 6/1124 30 to 124°F DURAC Plus Precision Glass Thermometer Novatech B60730-1300 $65.26

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  mikew

  Member

  November 30, 2014 at 5:47 am

  Is the DMA-35 certified by the TTB?

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  bluestar

  Member

  December 1, 2014 at 7:14 am

  Is the DMA-35 certified by the TTB?

  NO. Check the TTB site, there is now a recent circular on certified densitometers for proofing.

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  anton paar

  Member

  March 5, 2015 at 11:46 pm

  Is the DMA-35 certified by the TTB?

  As stated above, the DMA 35 is not TTB approved as it does not control temperature like the TTB approved bench top units do. It does have built in temperature correction, so you do not have to look on any tables to get your % or proof.

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