Actual Volume of a 200gal salt mix bucket from IO

[jason the filter freak]

I have a bucket I want to use to make up salt mix, and i would guess it's about 6 gal but I'm not sure.

It's the instant ocean bucket that holds 200 gal worth or salt mix.

[jamesbuf]

Actually 1 cubic foot of water is ~7.481 gallons.

Pie X R(squared) X height to get the volume in cubic inches. Whatever you get in cubic inches, type into here:

http://www.metric-conversions.org/volume/c...-cubic-feet.htm

Then just do the ratios. You need to get good with these kind of calculations man. Not these formulas, but the ratios and such. It'll be everyday math since you're going into healthcare.

[treesprite]

Math.... ugg! My calc class was in a condensed format of 2 semsters crammed into one - it was 5 days a week at 8:00 in the morning. Me of all people doing calc at 8 am (or just being awake at 8am) just doesn't work out and so I dropped halfway through the semester. That was like 20-something years ago... I kept the book until 2 years ago, maybe in the hope that the information would raise up from the bookshelf like vapor and find it's way up my nostrils and into my brain.

 

I mix salt water in kitty litter buckets that hold about 5 gallons and the salt bucket I think is about the same size.

[dbartco]

Get a measuring cup and start counting. I think you should use a 1/4 cup at a time for accuracy. take your time.

[gastone]

Get a measuring cup and start counting. I think you should use a 1/4 cup at a time for accuracy. take your time.

 

 

You could always use tsps, or 1/4 tsps for real accuracy.

 

G.

[ErikS]

You could always use tsps, or 1/4 tsps for real accuracy.

Not even in the ballpark, very easy to be off a bit - absolute tsp?

 

Better idea, the 1ml titration syringe found in many Salifert test kits.......that should be accurate!

 

[gastone]

Not even in the ballpark, very easy to be off a bit - absolute tsp?

 

Better idea, the 1ml titration syringe found in many Salifert test kits.......that should be accurate!

 

 

 

Yeah, but the conversion from metric to standard would suck.

 

G.

[jason the filter freak]

Actually 1 cubic foot of water is ~7.481 gallons.

Pie X R(squared) X height to get the volume in cubic inches. Whatever you get in cubic inches, type into here:

http://www.metric-conversions.org/volume/c...-cubic-feet.htm

Then just do the ratios. You need to get good with these kind of calculations man. Not these formulas, but the ratios and such. It'll be everyday math since you're going into healthcare.

 

for some reason when I was looking at it last night I was thinking the bucket was tapered and a cylinder calculation wouldn't work.. looking at it again it looks pretty uniform, I'll post my fininds in a little bit.

[jason the filter freak]

The bucket is: 15.75" Height, 12" Diameter or 1/2Diameter 6" radius.

There for it is 3.14159...(pi)x6"^2x15.75"=1782.283035(in^3) which is 1.03083(ft^3)

So...: 1.03083(ft^3)/x(gal) = 1(ft^3)/7.481(gal)--> x = 7.481(gal)/1.03083(ft^3)--> x = 7.257258714 (gal)

 

So my bucket is roughly 7.25 gallons...

 

Any one check that?

[gastone]

I didn't bother checking your math,

 

but using the approximated formula to calculate volume of V(inches^3)/231 = gallons I get 7.7g

 

Garrett.

 

I looked... your math is wrong. You divided, you should have mulitplied.

 

So...: 1.03083(ft^3)/x(gal) = 1(ft^3)/7.481(gal)--> x = 7.481(gal)/1.03083(ft^3)--> x = 7.257258714 (gal)

 

Change that to 7.418*1.03083 and you'll be closer to 7.64 gallons.

 

G.

Edited April 4, 2008 by gastone

[dbartco]

But did you account for temperature and the gravitational pull of the earth?

[Black Mammoth]

But did you account for temperature and the gravitational pull of the earth?

 

Don't forget how much water compresses when you add more water. Don't under estimate the compression factor!

[dbartco]

Don't forget how much water compresses when you add more water. Don't under estimate the compression factor!

 

Does that use a .wav compression algorithm?

 

[stevearlen]

I guess it is about 7 to 8 gal.

[rioreef]

I didn't bother checking your math,

 

but using the approximated formula to calculate volume of V(inches^3)/231 = gallons I get 7.7g

 

Garrett.

 

I looked... your math is wrong. You divided, you should have mulitplied.

 

So...: 1.03083(ft^3)/x(gal) = 1(ft^3)/7.481(gal)--> x = 7.481(gal)/1.03083(ft^3)--> x = 7.257258714 (gal)

 

Change that to 7.418*1.03083 and you'll be closer to 7.64 gallons.

 

G.

 

 

 

Man you guys have way to much time on your hands. Just take your 2.5 gal gas can for your lawnmower fill it with gas and pour into the bucket, repeat two more times then it should be about 7.5 gallons and verify your thoughts. Next, fill your car with the gas that you bought, gas is expensive now!

 

Oh, be sure to rinse the bucket well.

[treesprite]

too nutty. I did wonder at my first post why you didn't just measure it, but wasn giving you some leeway for not being able to help being lazy