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    >>To get to your actual question, it is common to see lead weights that do not weight the amount advertised.<<

    And while we're being pedantic, let's use the verb "weigh" not the noun "weight" where needed. Aren't typos a bitch?

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    While the topic is open.....

    In terms of buoyancy correction they only weight the actual weight minus the weight of the water they displace. Even a weight is trying to float in it's own pathetic way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spectrum View Post
    While the topic is open.....

    In terms of buoyancy correction they only weight the actual weight minus the weight of the water they displace. Even a weight is trying to float in it's own pathetic way.
    but at lead the material density is that heigh that you can ignore the amount of water displaced.

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    Quote Originally Posted by olphart
    let's use the verb "weigh" not the noun "weight" where needed. Aren't typos a bitch?

    Sorry Walter, couldn't resist
    I was wrong, I apologize. I should have said, it is common to see lead weights that do not weigh the amount advertised. I hope you will forgive my mistake.
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