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| Thread ID: 39947 | 2003-11-22 21:52:00 | OT - Cubic Measurment | merlin-nz (275) | PC World Chat |
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| 193983 | 2003-11-23 02:14:00 | Since this has already gone way off track, I'll bring it back on again :) A much more accurate way of getting the volume of a fridge is to lay it on its back, fill it with water at 4 deg C, then weigh the fridge. Then empty the water all out, dry the fridge, and re-weigh it. The difference in weight in Kilograms will be the volume in litres (or liters if you are German). Of course you can also get a cow to lie down in the water catch the water that spills over and get the density of the cow. This was first discovered by one Archimoodees, who leapt out of his bath, ran naked through the streets crying " Mooreka, mooreka" in Greek of course. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 193984 | 2003-11-23 03:03:00 | > 1 large alive cow = ~ 600 kg on the hoof............... > .........."User serviceable" parts would be about half this > figure, on the assumption you are not partial to > eating skin bones and offal. > (Note that by this stage the cow is very dead, and > you have a large mess to clean up) If one had a steer instead of a cow I am convinced this theory would then be just a load of bull. ;-) |
Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
| 193985 | 2003-11-23 03:31:00 | Oh dear didnt notice Grahams post which pre-emptied mine. Never mind, actually Archimoodees was lying in his fridgidarium (made by Fisher &Paykel of course), cooling his ardour when he made his great discovery. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 193986 | 2003-11-23 03:42:00 | Well I'd like to combine the methods we have here. Lay the fridge on its back and get the tare weight. Push cow through woodchipper. Pour cow into fridge. Turn temp way down. Note:- Wait until cow fully frozen before making fridge upright or your floor will have lots of leaked bits all over. Liquid nitrogen poured in may assist in this. After this you can subtract the tare weight from the gross weight giving the Kilograms of cow in the fridge. Just off to Mitre 10 to get a chipper. Back later.. :-) |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 193987 | 2003-11-23 03:45:00 | I hope he didn't have certain parts put through the woodchipper. Makes my eyes glaze over just thinking about it. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 193988 | 2003-11-23 04:57:00 | > I hope he didn't have certain parts put through the > woodchipper. > > Makes my eyes glaze over just thinking about it. Elephant, you didn't emigrate to NZ from the US to escape this sort of fate did you? The Yank's fridges would easily hold an elephant and a half and if you were living there you could be forgiven for being very worried. ;-) [pre]Oh how I love this site and its off topic threads. :D |
Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
| 193989 | 2003-11-23 05:33:00 | Not from the US. I'm a fifth generation Kay one double U one. To put this back on topic.... Just opened our Fridge to find a label under the freezer door which says L 271. Thank goodness for that. Now I have to work out what part of 271 liters is Fridge and what part Freezer. We just have the common (or garden) variety upright Fridge / Freezer... So..... Pour half the cow into top half and weigh what is left over maybe??? All comments welcome. Whoops.... Now have to find a cow. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 193990 | 2003-11-23 05:53:00 | You could try looking on the manufacturers web site, eg F & P (www.fisherpaykel.co.nz) Simpson (www.simpson.com.au) or, find a comparable size and base your measurements on that. I see that Simpson does a SR255 with a 74 litre freezer Here (www.simpson.com.au) J :D |
Jester (13) | ||
| 193991 | 2003-11-23 06:11:00 | If I really wanted to know then I guess I could do that . In the meantime . . . What do I do with this very worried cow I have? Being as I live in the South Waikato it wasn't difficult to find one . There were about 500 only a few doors down the road . It took a while to convince it to come to my place . It wanted to know whether I had enough hay or silage for dinner tonight . The said cow wasn't invited FOR dinner . It was going to BE dinner . I think I must have a foreign cow as it doesn't seem to understand when I talk to it . Anyway, the cow is in the back garden presently . Well the grass needed mowing!!! Do you think the cow should go through the chipper head first or rump first? I HOPE you realise that this is joking . I don't mind these off topic threads either . :-) |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 193992 | 2003-11-23 06:16:00 | Hope it isn't a holy cow? | mark.p (383) | ||
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