Riddle me this, Batman.

[Stradawhovious]

Alright. Let’s say that hypothetically 2 people are going to be splitting an 8lb keg of powder, and don’t have an extremely accurate, suitable scale. Barring measuring this out 200gr at a time on the old five oh five, what would be a good way to more or less split this in exactly half without too much waste, or contaminating the powder?

[elmerfuddem]

What do we get if we guess the right answer?

[plblark]

if you're not down to the gram, couldn't you measure the full keg. Then use an empty 8# keg on a scale and fill to half way? Maybe a postal scale would give you the required precision?

If you're buying it or components from GS, how about asking him for advice. I'm sure he's thought it out

I'll bet his answer is "buy 2 8# kegs" though

[Stradawhovious]

Like I said, no suitable scale to work with. I this person have has talked to John, he adv the same. A postal scale, or something of the sort. My only option for a postal scale would to bring 8 lbs of an explosive propellent into my this hypothetical person's local post office and ask to use their scale, and I'm not sure they would have a sense of humor about it.

[tullibee]

If I can find it, I can loan you the scale I've got for brewing. probably best to measure out 4 one-pound batches instead of doing bigger sets, since I don't recall exactly what the range is on the thing (it seems like it was maybe a 2 or 3 pound range, since we were using it to measure grain in 1/2, 3/4 and 1# groups IIRC). it may not get you .1 grn precision, but if I were splitting a keg with someone I'd be willing to rely on it!

let me know if that would work and I can try to find it and bring it to breakfast on saturday!!!

Or you could rig up a Monty Python how do know she is a witch balance scale, throw off the duck and the witch, and dump the powder out of the keg into a couple baggies and adjust them until you balance!

[princewally]

A measuring cup: "1 for me, 1 for you"???

[Stradawhovious]

A measuring cup: "1 for me, 1 for you"???

THat is almost exactly what I was thinking.

[Widge]

Ingredients:

1 Pail
1 set of bathroom scales
1 keg of powder
1 *plastic* jug or pitcher

Weigh full keg

Empty keg into pail

Weigh empty keg

Subtract weight of empty keg from weight of full keg

Use jug or pitcher to pour powder back into keg until weight equals half the weight of full keg - weight of empty keg.

Voila!

[Stradawhovious]

plus or minus a pound of course....... I have never trusted bathroom scales, especially since mine always weighs out 200 pounds off. That and my dryer always shrinks my pants.

Good idea though, keep em' coming!

[JFettig]

do you have 4 old 1lb powder containers? You could clean those out and fill em up approximately how high a new one is filled.

Jon

[EJSG19]

My thought is a couple empty 2 liter pop bottles washed out very thoroughly.

Fill each to the same level (the old eyeball method is the most accurate technology known to man...) and if you need to do it twice to accomodate the amount of powder then you'd have it. Could be off by 100-200 grains that way though pretty easily. Though not the end of the world.

I am hypothetically approaching this issue as well, and hypothetically was about to start my own thread about the same damn thing. Hypothetically.

[princewally]

(the old eyeball method is the most accurate technology known to man...)

It becomes more accurate than anything man-built if you let the person who didn't divide it pick which one he gets to keep.

If you're dividing a piece of cake.

And you're 8.

Do you know any 8 year olds?

Who like to eat powder?

[EJSG19]

(the old eyeball method is the most accurate technology known to man...)

It becomes more accurate than anything man-built if you let the person who didn't divide it pick which one he gets to keep.

If you're dividing a piece of cake.

And you're 8.

Do you know any 8 year olds?

Who like to eat powder?

Yep exactly. Some of my most careful times in life were with a butter knife and a slice of pie. My sister had pretty sharp eyes.

[ttousi]

bring it over I will divide it for you............how much shrinkage is tolerable?

[Stradawhovious]

bring it over I will divide it for you............how much shrinkage is tolerable?

You have just asked two seperate questions.

Answer #1 Not necessary, but thanks for the kind offer

Answer #2 It depends. Were you in the lake, or a public swimming pool?