It's shipping weight. How much it would weigh if put on a scales. What a
fish scales would say if you tied the poptop to it and lifted it, and then
stood next to it, squinting in the sunlight, waiting to have your picture
taken as if it was a really big fish or something.

250? that seems high for a bathtub made of fiberglass!

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Scott Daniel - Shazam <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> 250 lbs roughly.
> Depends on how you mean.
> Do you mean what is the lift up weight at the front with it hinged at the
> back ?
> or total weight as in shipping cost weight ? ( I shipped the whole thing
> to
> Alaska for a guy - that was a packing job and a half.  Went by barge too.
> )
>
> I'll tell you this- if one of the cables for counter springs in the bars
> is
> broken, it's like pressing 140 lbs over your head, far harder to do than
> one
> would expect. Or at least a hundred lbs.  it's hard to do.
> The coil counter springs have a large affect.
> Scott
> www.turbovans.com
>
>
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> Subject: weight of poptop?
>
> How much that thing weigh?
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