"RimaNeas" wrote in message
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"HeyBub" wrote in message
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Remember the ditty: "A pint's a pound the world around." Eight pints to a
gallon = 8 pounds.

Or, 4cf washer = 4 x 7.5 gallons/cu ft = 30 gallons x 8pounds/gallon =
240 pounds

Don't forget the basket of dirty clothes sitting on TOP of the washer.


Absolutely... I just took 10% of 1 metric ton instead of the 11%.... then
again the washer can only take 3.7 cuft so it all works out. Not much of
a defense actually, since I had not even thought of the water weight
originally :-)



very confusing because at school were always taught that there were 10
pounds in a gallon of water at 62 degrees fahrenheit at 30" of mercury air
pressure
But, that was probably because we were taught in the imperial measurements
where we get more mileage out of our gallon than the yanks