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Default Anyone needs 1.25x53" rounds, 1040 or 8620 steel?


On 2013-04-17, dpb wrote:
On 4/17/2013 3:01 AM, Gunner Asch wrote:
I dont have a clue as to what the bar weighs. ...

SS ~ 0.3 lb/in^3 so say it's 1/3...
3[.14](5/8)^2*53/3 -- 25/64*53 ~ 25/65*53 -- 5/13*53 ~ 5/13*52 -- ~20 lb


Since I do this a lot, I made a nice calculator for myself for plate
and rounds. I use it a lot from my cell phone browser.

http://www.algebra-inc.com/scrap.mpl -- Scrap calculator.

Feel free to use it.

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