I’ve googled until I can google no more. Actually, I used duckduckgo, but duckduckgoed isn’t a real dictionary word yet.

So here’s a question for the STW hive mind – will an old-school barometer (not electronic) likely survive being sent by air courier? Apparently pressurised plane cabins can be as low as 700Hpa, which is well off the bottom of the scale for a domestic barometer. And this assumes that the hold of a cargo plane is pressurised.

I’ve put bottles of wine in my luggage and they’ve all survived long haul flights without the cork coming out.

Just recently I have been sent a barometer by air courier and ’tis buggered – wondering if the flight pressure is to blame.

An old style Barometer is very fragile, a wine bottle is not.

its more likely it got dropped or thrown around.

The pressure won’t affect it. But being jiggled about a lot might.

I think the above is right, they’re precision instruments so any rough handling can cause damage.

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Just recently I have been sent a barometer by air courier and ’tis buggered – wondering if the flight pressure is to blame.

Yes. Same happened to me when I bought one in Switzerland as a souvenir, and brought it home in my baggage.

Thanks everyone. It’s time to discover if I can fix a dead barometer without personal injury.

Thanks everyone. It’s time to discover if I can fix a dead barometer without personal injury.

duckduckgo for specialist instrument repairs, find someone who does barometers, they can probably help. There is, or used to be, such a place along Park Row in Bristol, for example.