[TheForge] Weight

[David E. Smucker]

I am with Frosty -- I just use 0.3 pounds per cubic inch for steel and 0.1 
pounds per cubic inch for aluminum.  Most of the time I am very close to the 
scale at the scrap yard.  To calculate volume of rounds in my head I just 
use 3/4 of what a square would be.

Dave Smucker
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Frost" <frosty at customcpu.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Weight


> Okay. But is it any easier than using a regular calculator? Your computer 
> and connection is certainly less likely to be available when you're trying 
> to figure out if your old pickup can carry that tantalizing hunk of steel 
> you found just laying there.
>
> You could carry a pocket reference and look at the chart. It even has a 
> scale on the inside of the cover so you don't have to carry a tape 
> measure.
>
> Seriously, if you know what a cu/in or cu/ft weighs you can figure it in 
> the dust with your finger. You can measure it with your hand, palm, 
> finger, etc. if you know what they measure. You only have to know a few 
> basic things to be self reliant in most cases. This being a perfect 
> example.
>
> Frosty
> -------------------------------
> If it ain't forged
> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
> The FrostWorks
>
> Meadow Lakes, AK.
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>
> From: "Mark A. Pesetsky" <pesetsky at Princeton.EDU>
>
>
>
>
>
> This is what I was after...
>
> http://www.matweb.com/tools/weight-calculator.asp
>
> Mark
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