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<p>[QUOTE="Blissskr, post: 2857711, member: 34882"]These days with the amount of fake bars, etc if it didn't show up as registered with the manufacturer I'd pass unless the seller would allow me to conduct a specific gravity test, even if it meant opening the bar. SG tests are literally 6th grade science, all you need as a cheap digital scale, a wide enough properly marked graduated cylinder and a calculator (which any modern phone will work). Despite the fact that some people like to claim a bar could be tungsten filled, etc and thus come up close. Personally for smaller size bars I doubt a counterfeiter is taking the time to get the SG close, if anything they are concerned with mainly just the overall weight (often ignoring dimensions if you have a good caliper) and the SG would still give it away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Blissskr, post: 2857711, member: 34882"]These days with the amount of fake bars, etc if it didn't show up as registered with the manufacturer I'd pass unless the seller would allow me to conduct a specific gravity test, even if it meant opening the bar. SG tests are literally 6th grade science, all you need as a cheap digital scale, a wide enough properly marked graduated cylinder and a calculator (which any modern phone will work). Despite the fact that some people like to claim a bar could be tungsten filled, etc and thus come up close. Personally for smaller size bars I doubt a counterfeiter is taking the time to get the SG close, if anything they are concerned with mainly just the overall weight (often ignoring dimensions if you have a good caliper) and the SG would still give it away.[/QUOTE]
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