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] Date Posted:11:55:09 11/02/09 Mon
I've been to the old BD factory in Rutherford NJ. The city is an old and industrial dump off of the NJ Turnpike. I wonder what the people were like who worked there? Probably some good stories were told on the assembly lines. I'd like to see if they have some old rectal thermometers that were stored somewhere.
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[> Subject: Re: Anyone ever see a thermometer factory?
Date Posted:15:49:06 11/02/09 Mon
I'm not on a treasure hunt exactly. I don't really believe much would turn up. Most old glass rectal thermometers are probably at the bottom of landfills, and in medicine cabinets of old homes occasionally. If you're lucky you can find them for outrageous prices on ebay, because ebay sellers are greedy, and then you have the bidding wars. If you don't get your hands on some antique thermometers within the next few years, you will either pay $100 each, or you won't be able to ever find them again. They've been picked over, like everything else that's valuable.
Date Posted:17:36:26 11/02/09 Mon
There's a crop of rectal thermos on Ebay right now, in the $5-10 range. Plain plastic cases with red tops, but they're there.
Date Posted:23:19:21 11/02/09 Mon
Those thermometers are phony baloney's. Now this one on ebay right now is the real deal.
This one is a nice Jap model also live on ebay right now.
Have fun on the ebay rectal thermometer treasure hunt. I could have posted a link to the ebay pages. But then it wouldn't have been a real treasure hunt.
Date Posted:07:03:58 11/03/09 Tue
Saw those, but I've already got (pardon the pun) a buttload of them. Just bid on and won a non-medical Taylor in a screwtop brass case. Going to try to find a playmate who's up for some Steampunk med-porn.
Date Posted:17:21:59 11/03/09 Tue
That's the road where you have a great view of beautiful women testing out the rectal thermometers, and asking for volunteers.
Date Posted:17:26:32 11/03/09 Tue
Probably the assembly line workers became like the mad hatter from mercury poisoning over the years. The remaining ones are most likely in nursing homes.
Date Posted:11:03:58 11/07/09 Sat
Where can I get the application to volunteer the testing of the rectal temps??? I'm game to be a guinea pig. Use my arse.
Date Posted:18:58:16 11/09/09 Mon
I've never seen a thermometer factory, but I was reading an article about one located in Brooklyn NY. It went on to say that the line workers would be covered with loose mercury droplets, and would accidently spread the toxic metal to others in their families. Again, this was an isolated article from a few years ago. I can't verify whether it was genuine, but I tend to believe it.
Date Posted:12:49:13 11/11/09 Wed
-interesting post Rick-kind of make's you weak in the knee's-wondering what or who was used as the test subject(s)-and I agree with damethatsgame--let me know where the applicant's sign up for testing the thermometer's-(especially rt)---cool pic's JJ--great post's everyone--great thread topic Cindi.
Read not to believe or disbelieve, but the weigh and consider. That Rick poster is the troll trying to make a joke. Thermometers are tested in a water bath with accurate thermostats, not on human subjects.
You swallowed a thread from a poster who said she was a Harvard educated lawyer that was disabled and had no arms. Anyone with common sense could see she wrote in a style that revealed herself as a complete fraud, but you missed it. A poster made a comment that you should never be on a jury, and you responded that you have served on one. The jury comment was obviously made because he thought you were gullible enough to believe anything you read and did not carefully consider the facts.
I am just trying to point out how easily you are swayed by nonsense. Read carefully and think hard about what you read here. This place is crawling with charletons and story tellers that make snake oil sound like a cure for every illness known to man.
