I wonder if this will trickle own into smaller appliances. I have an old flatiron with a tiny mercury bulb for a tilt switch. It's the only one I've ever found but I only learned about it from VT's version of the doc that hobo just posted. Apparently, it was pretty common, back in the day, to put mercury in all sorts of devices. But are they still a risk, in terms of how many remain out in the world? I would think most of the stoves, chest freezers, and car trunks which contained mercury had already gone to scrap.