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Frank[_17_]

On 1/23/2013 12:25 AM, wrote:
How much would a 55 gallon metal drum filled with lead wheel weights
weigh? A local service garage has filled one such barrel with all the
old wheel weights they take off tires. I asked them what that weighs,
they said they would like to know, because no one can even move it, much
less get it on a scale. All I know is that it's a hell of a boat
anchor....

Pure lead is easy to calculate but since you cannot calculate the free
volume of packing for these irregular shapes the easiest thing to do
would be to weigh a gallon of them.