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KBBS Archive 40,000
Re: Food Fight!
Posted By: Spidey In Response To: Upon further reflection... (Pete Rudie)
Date: Wednesday, 31 January 2001, at 7:09 p.m.
Hi Again Pete;
When building kayaks, most posters here mix in 6-12 oz batches, not 1.5 gal at a time . . . My point is that disregarding corrections, the percentage volume difference amounts to about the width of the measuring line on the measuring cup . . . Consequently, metering the volume via a measuring cup is actually no better than weighing it without regard to specific gravity. I'd like to see someone pour resin or hardener into a measuring cup to 30 thousandths of an inch or so accuracy, consistently . . . ;-)
Thinking about it, the problem would be the same with a 1.5 gallon mix, as the measuring bucket is essentially proportional to the small mixing cups, only larger. There, the weighing error would be equivalent to around a tenth of an inch on the graduations.
In any event, a simple calculation can put you dead on if you feel it is that important, as was pointed out in another post.
Grabbing a handful of mashed potatoes, Spidey
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