vintage glass carboy help

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Lorrainelovesplants

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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 15 8:40 am Post subject: vintage glass carboy help
Im selling this on ebay. Ive never used them, but got gifted them. I dont know the size and there are no markings, but could be 14 or 15 gallons? How do I find out (apart from filling with gallon measures?)

Falstaff

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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 15 9:09 am Post subject:
That's the only accurate way I can think of. you could call it spherical and calculate the volume, but it's not and you'd have to allow for the thickness of the glass. So that has a load of built in errors. Just fill it up !

Lorrainelovesplants

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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 15 9:30 am Post subject:
It'll take forever! Its 26 inches high and 55 inches in diameter. You know I cant do maths. DONT MAKE ME FILL THE THING!!!!

Nick

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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 15 9:40 am Post subject:
Just put those dimensions. Who would actually care what it would hold? PS, it's not 55 inches diameter and 26 inches high.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 15 9:45 am Post subject:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=area+of+a+cylinder&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=8QR4VZSJIsW1UcefgJAC#q=volume+of+a+sphere Radius is about 8.75 inches, so volume 2800 cubic inches, so around 10 gallons if I've worked it out correctly.

Lorrainelovesplants

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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 15 9:49 am Post subject:
Nick, those are the dimensions. I measured it this morning.

Lorrainelovesplants

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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 15 9:50 am Post subject:
circumference is 55 - many apologies - wrong name of thing.

Lorrainelovesplants

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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 15 9:54 am Post subject:
It is 10 gallons!

Nick

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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 15 10:07 am Post subject:

Lorrainelovesplants wrote:

circumference is 55 - many apologies - wrong name of thing.

Makes much more sense.

Ten gallons? Cowboys have a hat that big...

sean
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 15 10:18 am Post subject:
I reckon advertise them as Cowboy Hat Storage System Carboys then. People will be queueing up.

Nick

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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 15 10:31 am Post subject:
I would think so.

Lorrainelovesplants

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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 15 2:09 pm Post subject:
starting price £10....... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221793582896?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

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