Better hang on to that sucker, or it'll just float away!

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rico Sapolich" <JKrevnov@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: how much does a tranny weigh?

> In a message dated 9/19/00 9:51:16 PM, poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU writes:
>
> << I can lift an empty tranny easily by myself, so somewhere between 80
and
> 90 lbs. >>
>
> According to UPS, that is a very good estimate for a properly packaged
> transaxle with clutch housing.  I recently shipped one and I was billed
for
> 86 lb.  Curiously, at home it weighed 98 lb. on a parcel scale calibrated
to
> 100 lb. with 2 unopened 50 lb. bags of flour.  Then, when I first hoisted
it
> onto the UPS scale it weighed 92 lb.  The clerk asked me to remove it
since
> she had already entered the data for another package which I was shipping.
> As my hernia popped, I again placed it on the scale for the official
> weigh-in.  That was when it weighed 86 lb.  I think if you continue to
weigh
> it, it will take on a negative mass.
>
> Rich