Quote Originally Posted by fish_4_all View Post
Nothing personal PanMan, I am trying to quit smoking and I tend to be a little more defensive. Figured I would leave it just for some laughs.

I didn't say it accounted for any amount of the lost weight. All I said is it made it impossible to get the actual weight out of them because of the addition of the hook. How in the world could anyone try to account for the exact weight loss? Different metals in different brand hooks expand differently so that causes lost weight, some don't expand as much, heavier weight. Go ahead and try to find pure lead. Even the large pigs I find say they are only 98.7% pure. Wheel weights, good luck getting everything to melt and mix in a pure solution, I for one don't have a metal stirring pot that at least tries to keep it mixed. Get the mold hotter in some places and cooler in other, loss of weight. I imagine the only way to get close would be to propose some senseless project for some government grant that comes to the conclusion that you simply can't do it unless you perform the pour in more than ideal conditions.

This all assumes that you can trust the initial mold to pour a perfect weight in the first place. Maybe we can come up with a $250K grant proposal, do some research and by the time we are done have enough jigs poured to supply every member with jigs for life.
Count me in on that one. I'll even write the test plan so we can figure out the average head weight expected and the standard deviation.:D