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How to weigh a heavy(ish) object for free.

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  • Rotor wrote: »
    fill the bath to the brim then put your item in the bath. Mop up and measure the amount of water in your mop bucket ; 1 ltr = 1kg

    Tell the wife it's ok - it's 'science'

    Or maybe not

    Edit: this will only work if it floats - and won't work anyway. Hope this helps

    It also wouldn't work because all baths have an overflow, so you'd be losing water through this as well as over the sides. :D
  • Take it up to the Local Post Office - they have big scales, they are usually at the end of the counter near the big parcel receiving area.

    Weigh it there
    I am a cow so cannot speak Bullshine but I do recognise its smell when I come upon it.
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