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OK Jammer, now for the bad news - they are all different. Jammer Six wrote: > > Here's the plan. > > A old friend of mine has just become certified, and just today spent a > huge sum of money on gear. > > He doesn't appear to have bought anything that would get him labeled as a > stroke, but he has yet to buy tanks. > > I told him about the blessed and annointed PS 104's and 95's, but you > can't get them here. > > The dive store told him about what they can get, and around we went. > > So what we're going to do, is we're going to build a box. > > Since I'm a carpenter, and General, we're going to build an EXACT box, a > box that is precise in it's dimensions, and we're going to sink a variety > of tanks in it. > > We're going to stuff a tank into the box, cover it with water, mark the > level, jerk the tank out, mark the new level, and then we will have exact > dimensions for the displacement of that tank, and can calculate the > weight of sea water it displaces. > > Then we're going to weigh it empty, weigh it full, and arrive a what we > think are the REAL bouyancy figures for that tank. > > This arises because we've heard conflicting numbers on different tanks, > and now don't believe anyone. > > The only tanks we have available are the ubiquitous al 80, the vaunted > 104's, and an old steel 72 that I've collected. We also have a couple > sizes of ponies, the al 30 and the al 13, as well as an old B size O2 > cylinder that I use for argon. > > Does anyone see any holes in our plans? > Comments? Flames? Complaints? > > I'll make another post sometime this weekend with the results, and then > I'll dedicate the rest of my life to making the lives of equipment > salesmen miserable with the TRUTH. > > Unless I can get a spot on the Vision, which is a bigger boat... > > --------- > "Huh?" > --Jammer, 1992 > --------- > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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