Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ihnp4!gargoyle!ddsw1!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Tank Location
Message-ID: <2566@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 87 09:32:55 GMT
References: <4768@sol.ARPA> <2481@gryphon.CTS.COM> <956@csun.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Summary: Uhh yeah, right.

In article <956@csun.UUCP> acphssrw@csun.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton) writes:
>In article <2481@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>>
>>I once bought a 100 gallon tank for $50 with the bottom glass cracked.
>>
>>You can't put one of THOSE in an apartment. Weighs almost a ton when 
>>filled. It's still in the garage.
>
>"A pint's a pound," Richard.  100 gallons of water weighs 800 pounds.


Uhh, yeah. Why do I keep thinking there are 1000 pounds to
a ton ? Harumpfh.

>I certainly don't worry about 4 or 5 friends standing shoulder to
>that, and it is in my second floor apartment.
>   Although the people downstairs complain that after the Whittier
>quake, the plaster on their ceiling is cracked right under the bed.
>I told them it was just the flexure of the frame (it's a wood frame
>building).  I hope I'm right :-).

The difference is, with a waterbed, the load is spread out over
a larger area. With a 100 gallon tank, the 800+ pounds is
in a 2' x 5' area. Makes me nervous. I sorta like the
people downstairs. :-)

>Stephen Walton