Taylor 5460 Indoor/Outdoor Minimum/Maximum Thermometer, -40 to 120 Degree F
by Taylor Precision Products

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Product Details

• Records highest and lowest daily temperatures
• Large easy to read face
• Convenient push button reset
• Temperature range -40 to 120 degree F and -40 to 50 degree C
• Pack of 1

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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Taylor 5460 Indoor/Outdoor Minimum/Maximum Thermometer, -40 to 120 Degree F

Customer Review: Horrible
Summary: 1 Stars

And that's not the only thing that makes this difficult to read. This thermometer is a U shaped tube. On the top of the fluid on each size is a sliver of something black called the limit marker. Because the thermometer is so small, the marker is about 8 "degree's" long--that is, it's length in the tube covers 4 hash marks with each mark being 2 degrees. It is these markers that the fluid pushes to mark the high/lo temperatures. Problem is not only do you have to be right smack on top of the thermometer to even see these markers, no where does it tell you which end of the marker to use to get your readings! I read every single piece of text on the package and on the thermometer itself and I still have no idea! Do I use the bottom of the marker where it touches the fluid? or do I use the top of the marker? There's an 8 degree difference here, so it would be nice to know.

And there's more---the reset button basically is pointless. When you push it, it's suppose to release the markers, but it says on the back if it doesn't (which of course it doesn't) you have to do some peculiar things to "reset" it...take it down, hold it in a certain way, move it back and forth in a certain way until the markers get where they're suppose to be. What a pain in the butt.

I've had it two days and I'm sick of it already. And here's one last annoyance. This being a U shaped tube, there's two scales. Each side reads -40 to 120F. One side obviously is the high and the other side the low. I've only had this for two days and the last two days here haven't had much temperature flucuation so both sides are reading basically the same....so I have no idea which is the high and which is the low side and it doesn't say anywhere on this thermometer or on the package!

Absolutely a horrible thermometer. I'm sending it back today.

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