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<p>[QUOTE="cvicisso, post: 1358319, member: 29382"]Anything over 226g <i>might</i> have silver in it (on my scale at least). Over 228g - definitely has silver. Over 229g has a 90%er in there. </p><p><br /></p><p>The trouble with weighing (I discovered through trial and error) is that the difference between clads and 40% is just too close to call. I've had many rolls with a 40% in them that weighed LESS than some all-clad rolls (but <i>usually</i>, the rolls with 40% weigh slightly more). The average for clad rolls on my scale is around 225.5g. I had the exact number (to a hundredth of a gram) plus standard deviation, yada, yada, yada... thinking that I could just weigh and skip, weigh and skip. But in my 'research' I started discovering those pesky 40% Kennedys that not only fell within a standard deviation, but were actually BELOW the mean. Blew my whole theory. Back to the drawing board...</p><p><br /></p><p>I was hoping there was a way to use a metal detector, but when I asked on those forums, they said that wouldn't work either. I guess the bottom line is that if it was that easy, someone way smarter than me would have figured it out a long time ago. Shucks...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cvicisso, post: 1358319, member: 29382"]Anything over 226g [I]might[/I] have silver in it (on my scale at least). Over 228g - definitely has silver. Over 229g has a 90%er in there. The trouble with weighing (I discovered through trial and error) is that the difference between clads and 40% is just too close to call. I've had many rolls with a 40% in them that weighed LESS than some all-clad rolls (but [I]usually[/I], the rolls with 40% weigh slightly more). The average for clad rolls on my scale is around 225.5g. I had the exact number (to a hundredth of a gram) plus standard deviation, yada, yada, yada... thinking that I could just weigh and skip, weigh and skip. But in my 'research' I started discovering those pesky 40% Kennedys that not only fell within a standard deviation, but were actually BELOW the mean. Blew my whole theory. Back to the drawing board... I was hoping there was a way to use a metal detector, but when I asked on those forums, they said that wouldn't work either. I guess the bottom line is that if it was that easy, someone way smarter than me would have figured it out a long time ago. Shucks...[/QUOTE]
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