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Re: [at-l] Weighing your gear
- Subject: Re: [at-l] Weighing your gear
- From: "Steven Dopp" <dopp%40ncfrpc%2Eorg>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 14:22:54 -0400
I use a postal scale. You can buy them for between $10 and $30 at Office
Depot or similar office supply stores. Mine weighs from 1 to 5 lbs.
Looking back on it, I wish I would have bought the model that weighed up to
10 (or was it 20?) pounds.
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> From: GRL <lee@fr.com>
> To: at-l@saffron.hack.net
> Subject: [at-l] Weighing your gear
> Date: Wednesday, September 24, 1997 1:37 PM
>
> I've read many contributions in which people have weighed
> every item that goes into their pack, producing weights
> accurate to the closest ounce. Am wondering how you have
> gone about coming up with those precise measurements. Is
> there an inexpensive sort of scale that can weigh all of
> those objects, some of which (e.g., a backpack) are pretty
> bulky? It would need to weigh stuff weighing up to, say, 8
> lbs (e.g., a heavy tent). Do people use some sort of
> inexpensive fish-weighing scale?
>
> Roger Lee
> lee@fr.com
>
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