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From: "J. N. Cameron" <CIC@centuryinter.net>
To: "Lancair List" <lancair.list@olsusa.com>
Subject: Cheap weights.
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 11:26:58 -0500
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    Since I live about 200 yards from the beach, my standard weighting
device throughout the ES building project was wet sand.  I used gallon-sized
ziplock bags (the good ones, not the generic stuff), filled them about 3/4
full with wet beach sand, then wrapped the zipped top around with duct tape.
In about two years of building, I only had two of them break on me.  They're
conformable, too -- with a little punching around, they'll fit whatever you
stack them on.  Total cost for about 500 lbs of weights -- about $10 worth
of ziplocks and duct tape.  Yes, you have to stack them higher to get the
same weight as bags of lead shot, but so what?  Haven't priced it lately,
but lead shot used to run about $20 per bag, so 500 lbs of that would set
you back $400.

    Can't imagine why the factory thinks you need 1000lbs of weight on a
wing.  I found that with 400 to 500 lbs distributed judiciously, there was
good squeeze-out of the Hysol (plus a little flox) all around, and I had no
fuel tank leaks.

Jim Cameron    LNCE N82500


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