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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Moving a mercury barometer

« on: April 18, 2007, 02:19:27 pm »

thanks for the tips
wish me luck

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Antique Questions Forum / Moving a mercury barometer

« on: April 16, 2007, 04:44:23 pm »

my family has a 19th century (I think) Swedish barometer, and I've been told that it's very delicate. When my mom moved, we had to walk it the 5 blocks and then walk up the stairs, always doing our best to not shake it or bounce it at all (thus the stairs instead of the elevator). One day, we're going to have to move it again, but this time much farther away than a walk could accomplish. Does anyone have any pointers on what we could do? We will probably have to hire someone to move it, I figure, but how could we make sure (if we could ever be totally sure) that whoemver we hire will take the utmost care?