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On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:30:05PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote: >Ooh, good call. The ability to make cake on the moon is not something >I'd considered in the past, but this is definitely a win for old >technology! I've used spring-scales, which work more or less - but when they start to go wrong (which they certainly used to quite frequently) you have no way of knowing about it. If a balance goes wrong, it won't balance when it's empty, or there's a chunk missing from one of the balance masses. >On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 08:58:26PM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: >> Try charity and antique stores. I'm sure you could pick up some metric >> weights to replace the archaic measures. I'm actually keeping an eye out for SI masses but I haven't yet found any at a sensible price. Nor have I particularly noticed the lack. RThere's stuff above here
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