Re: [ARSCLIST] Floor Load Capacity

["Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "D. Blake Werts" <bwerts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > For the record (pun more-or-less intended) 10" shellac records
> > weigh in at about 1/2 pound each, suggesting 12" are just short
> > of 3/4 pound (.72 pounds to be exact).
> >
> > Unsleeved 78's run about ten per inch, so ordinary paper sleeves
> > probably make that around 9.9 and heavier sleeves closer to 9...
> > which means 4.5 to 5 lbs. per foot of occupied shelving for 10"
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> > Steven C. Barr
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> Is there a typo here?  "4.5 to 5 lbs. per foot" ?
> 
> ...maybe it is the humidity and all here in the south--a 1 foot run of
> 10inch shellac weighs more on the average of 50-60 pounds when it is I that
> has to heave them around!
> 
Not a typo...a "thoughto!" I was thinking "per inch" and typed
"per foot!"
Steven C. Barr
(who just finished relocating two full milk boxes of 78's...)