OT -- Beware of anyone making large purchases with nickles

"Casper Milquetoast" wrote ...
> The reason is because you are a retard. That's also
> the reason you made the post to a SCUBA newsgroup.

Awh, lick me bitch... Ya' fuckin' hotmail weenie...

At least I put an "OT" on subject line... You don't like it, don't fuckin'
read it... Pretty fuckin' simple for anyone with half the brain of a gnat...
Oh... I see the problem now...

"Grumman-581" <grumman581-YYYY-MM@charter.net> wrote in message
news:w0gEd.56295$qq6.34763@fe05.lga...

> Irregardless, it's a lot of weight for the amount of money... The
> 18-wheeler
> was probably worth nearly that much and they abandoned it...

18-wheelers are registered. If you can't create a 'new identity' for it,
it's nothing more than a collection of parts. Nickels, on the other hand,
can easily be laundered anywhere there are old ladies and slot machines,
i.e. the nearest Indian reservation.

In article <w0gEd.56295$qq6.34763@fe05.lga>, Grumman-581
<grumman581-YYYY-MM@charter.net> wrote:

€ "Alan Street" wrote ...
€ > And, as Rudy pointed out, 3.6 million nickels at 5 grams per coin is
€ > 18,000 kg (*2.2 lbs/kg) - 39,600 lbs, not 45,000 lbs.
€
€ Well, as long as we're nitpicking, it's more like 2.204627 lbs/kg and one
€ might wonder how exact that 5 g/coin really is... According to:
€ http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint...specifications
€ it is 5.000 g/nickel...

Since you asked, and since I'm at work on this blustery Sunday
afternoon, I grabbed a sample of nickels and weighed them. Here's the
results

Year Mass
2003 4.99869g
1996 4.93692g
2000 4.95496g
1964 4.84603g
1980 4.94159g
1995 4.90709g
2003 4.89489g
1999 4.91786g
1979 4.99268g
1955 4.99548g

I would expect that they would lose some mass as they're handled, but
would also gain some mass from skin oils, etc. I didn't clean these or
prepare them in any way.

Also, I confirmed that they are a homogenous alloy. There's no cladding
or layering like there is with quarters.

Alan

Alan Street wrote:

>
> Also, I confirmed that they are a homogenous alloy. There's no cladding
> or layering like there is with quarters.


Non destructive testing, of course...

In article <yJadnYzOFamgKHzcRVn-sw@comcast.com>, dazed and confuzzed
<dedmann@comcast.net> wrote:

€ Alan Street wrote:
€
€ >
€ > Also, I confirmed that they are a homogenous alloy. There's no cladding
€ > or layering like there is with quarters.
€
€
€ Non destructive testing, of course...
€

Absolutely. EDX at varying voltages which gives you a pseudo depth
profile

"Alan Street" wrote ...
> Since you asked, and since I'm at work on this blustery Sunday
> afternoon, I grabbed a sample of nickels and weighed them. Here's the
> results
<snip>

Funny how what started out as just a post of a "news of the weird" type of
thing can actually start bringing out some interesting information... Now,
to make this dive related, we need to discuss the practicality of using
nickles on our weight belts instead of lead... Assuming 5 grams per nickel,
that means 1 gram per $0.01... With 454 grams per lb, it would cost $4.54
per lb of weight... Nawh, not cost effective... Let's see... A penny is 2.5
grams, so approximately $1.82 per lb of weight... Nope, still not cost
effective... Oh well, guess we're gonna have to stick with lead...

"Grumman-581" <grumman581-YYYY-MM@charter.net> wrote in message
news:jXjEd.56529$lt1.47945@fe05.lga...
> "Alan Street" wrote ...
>> Since you asked, and since I'm at work on this blustery Sunday
>> afternoon, I grabbed a sample of nickels and weighed them. Here's the
>> results
> <snip>
>
> Funny how what started out as just a post of a "news of the weird" type of
> thing can actually start bringing out some interesting information... Now,
> to make this dive related, we need to discuss the practicality of using
> nickles on our weight belts instead of lead... Assuming 5 grams per
> nickel,
> that means 1 gram per $0.01... With 454 grams per lb, it would cost $4.54
> per lb of weight... Nawh, not cost effective... Let's see... A penny is
> 2.5
> grams, so approximately $1.82 per lb of weight... Nope, still not cost
> effective... Oh well, guess we're gonna have to stick with lead...
>
>

Like many of us, I have a huge jar of pennies. I have used pennies for
weight in lieu of lead shot. They cost nothing since I already have them.
They do corrode. I suspect that nickels might not, at least not Canadian
nickels. Merican nickels probably would corrode.

http://www.reade.com/Particle_Briefings/spec_gra.html

Copper is 8.9, lead is 11.34, nickel is 8.9, pure gold is 19.32, steel is
about 7.8.

http://www.mint.ca/en/collectors_cor...al_specs_5.htm

Now to make it more interesting, the latest Canadian nickel weighs only 3.95
grams and has a composition of 94.5% steel, 3.5% copper and 2% nickel.
Clearly superior to Yankee formulation. Natcherly.

For more superior Kanuckistan coinage, have a look at this...

http://www.mint.ca/en/catalogue/products/623155?catid=1