Ok, I'll try... lead has a specific gravity about nine times that of water(I
think! don't quote me here). One cubic foot of water weighs 62.4 pounds. One
cubic foot is 1728 cu inches. One gallon is 231 cu inches. So one gallon of
water weighs 8.34 pounds. Therefore a drum of water weighs 55 * 8.34 or
458.79 pounds. If lead is 9 times heavier then a drum of lead weighs 9 *
458.79 or 4129.12 pounds. There are 7000 grains in a pound. Therefore there
are 7000 * 4129.12 or 28,903, 874.99 grains in a drum of lead. Now divide
that by the number of grains per slug, 28,903, 874.99 / 158 oor 182,
935.9177 slugs for a 38 special. well, actually on 182,935 because cannot
have a partial slug <grin>
This may be a tad off on account I just guessed at the specific gravity of
lead.
mayf
----- Original Message -----
From: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
To: "'Dick J'" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>; "'DrMayf'" <drmayf@teknett.com>; "W S
Potter" <wester6935@attbi.com>; "Glen Barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>;
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Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 1:00 PM
Subject: RE: Lead - not BOndo, but! (NO LSR)
> Anybody want to calculate how many 158 grain .38 caliber bullets you could
> cast with that much lead?
>
> Regards, Neil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick J [mailto:lsr_man@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 11:45 AM
> To: Albaugh, Neil; 'DrMayf'; W S Potter; Glen Barrett;
> landspeed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Lead - not BOndo, but! (NO LSR)
>
>
>
> And then there was the custom '56 Mg coupe that I spotted behind a house
in
> Pacific Grove, California when I was there in the Army. It turned out
that
> it had actually won it's class in the Oakland Roadster show many years
> before, but it was in really poor shape. I decided that the best thing to
> do was cut off the custom "split window" hard-top, and turn it back into a
> roadster. I sold over 400 pounds of scrap lead that came off with the
roof!
> Honest! I actually got more for the lead than I paid for the car, and more
> than I sold the car for when I got transferred.
>
>
> Dick J In East Texas
>
>
> "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com> wrote:
>
>
> Mayf;
>
> You'll have to beat 30lbs. In an IROC practice session at Riverside back
in
> '72, Richard Petty got pranged in the left rear of the Porsche 911 that he
> was driving. There wasn't time to do much body repair work overnight so it
> was just pounded out a little and filled with big gobs of Bondo. They had
a
> bank of heat lamps to make it dry quicker between adding more layers of
> Bondo. The next morning, a quick shot of spray-can Krylon and it was ready
> for the starting grid.
>
> Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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