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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3285028, member: 57463"]If you like building models or making things in your basement or garage shop, then, yes, this is pretty easy. Otherwise, no, it is hard to do well.</p><p>See an earlier CoinTalk here:</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-specific-gravity.262544/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-specific-gravity.262544/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-specific-gravity.262544/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You can goto YouTube and search "specific gravity of coins" and view many. I cannot recommend one over another, but they seem to show the same process.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I must repeat: If you are handy, it is easy. If you are all thumbs, it is impossible to get repeatable results. Let me tell you... As a lab aide in college, I had access to half a dozen scales and other equipment. I weighed my coins often and noted the results. I could get three decimals on a silver dollar: 26.7 grams. The books say 26.73, but that last place, for me, 26.72782...26.73031...26.7416 ...whatever... </p><p><br /></p><p>I worked for Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology and translated a manual on statistical process control from German to English. I could so that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3285028, member: 57463"]If you like building models or making things in your basement or garage shop, then, yes, this is pretty easy. Otherwise, no, it is hard to do well. See an earlier CoinTalk here: [url]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-specific-gravity.262544/[/url] You can goto YouTube and search "specific gravity of coins" and view many. I cannot recommend one over another, but they seem to show the same process. And I must repeat: If you are handy, it is easy. If you are all thumbs, it is impossible to get repeatable results. Let me tell you... As a lab aide in college, I had access to half a dozen scales and other equipment. I weighed my coins often and noted the results. I could get three decimals on a silver dollar: 26.7 grams. The books say 26.73, but that last place, for me, 26.72782...26.73031...26.7416 ...whatever... I worked for Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology and translated a manual on statistical process control from German to English. I could so that.[/QUOTE]
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