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    Your choice on the Murphy, all I can say is that I really like mine, I bought both a Murphy Cup and a Murphy Float. I use the cup when drawing syrup and the float in the finisher with a good digital thermometer to read the temp. The Murphy does not give you the temperature even though it is in reality a thermometer with the temp. face exchanged with a density scale, but if you know the temperature and what the Murphy reads you will be able to know the density.
    The decision to buy or not must be yours.
    Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
    Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
    Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
    After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.

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    Any cup will do provided it's deep enough. Nice thing about a hydrometer cup, it hold just the right amount. It also has the handle the will hook on the pan.

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    The nice thing about an actual cup is when I finish my syrup in 16 quart stock pots, I can submerge the whole cup in the hot syrup several times to warm it up then bring it out full and take a reading. You might want to take a temp the first few times to know roughly how long to wait til the temp drops to 211º.
    Noel Good
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