[SOC] Oh No! Here's Dan again with another really stupid question

Tue, 2 Apr 2002 18:52:13 -0600

Ok, I warned you.

What weighs exactly one pound?  The outgoing QSL bureau states pricing for a
half pound of cards and for a full pound.  So how do I know when my stack of
cards weigh a pound?  Even a half pound?  Or at least close to a pound.

I've got this old (cheapy) postage scale - spring movement - with a scale up
to one pound, but the thing is so old that the graduations on it start with,
well, lets just say a few postage rate increases have occurred since I
bought it.  I can't guarantee its accuracy.  Not at all.  So I try the
bathroom scales.  One's digital so - guess that's no guarantee either.
Wonder what the percent error is.  No matter anyhow, the battery's dead and
there's not a spare 9 volter in the house.  The other one is the old analog
type.  Resolution?  Forget it.

I'm snooping through the cupboards looking for a nice weight standard.  One
pound can of coffee?  Hmmmm, "net weight."  Wonder what that means.  Weight
of the can plus what it takes them to allegedly fill it?  Probably plus or
minus a half pound.  Same with the four pound bag of sugar.  The paper
doesn't... oh never mind anyhow, the postage scale only goes up to one
pound.

My wife suggests I take the stack of cards to the post office and have them
weigh it.  Stand in line for that?  "Whassa matter don't you even need to
buy a book of stamps?"  "Nah, I just need this stack weighed, please."

So, anyone got an idea what could be used as a "standard" weight?  Got about
150 cards needin' to go out to DX land.

Dan W. Dooley  WB5TKA  Bedford, Texas
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