average weight of records?

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what's the average weight of a 12" record? this is important. if i get no answers i will bust out the bathroom scale and weigh myself, then pick up twenty 12"s, and divide the difference by 20. i guess i could have done that in the time it takes to type this but i figured you smarties would already have this figured out and maybe even have your own stories about how you did it.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

apparently 140g is the standard weight of a 12"/LP. 180g is the "heavy" version.

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

125 records in one crate is enough to cause your back to hurt for a week when lugged up 2 flights of stairs. HTH.

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm guessing sleeve weight is negligible, then?

Also, Is this for shipping purposes?

― naus (Robert T), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, it needs to include sleeve weight! it is indeed for shipping porpoises. i mean dolphins.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

Imperial or metric? But really, you should weigh those specific records individually, unless you're a bigtime ebayer, 'cause of the complications of gatefolds and the like, plus the weight of the packaging.

― naus (Robert T), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

According to my digital scale Stockhausen's "Prozession" weighs 213 grams and Basement Jaxx's "Kish Kash" (2 Lps) weighs 361 grams.

― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

Michael Mayer "Lovefood" 12" = 236 grams

― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

i have hundreds of records! i just want a ballpark idea. tomorrow i will do the experiment and share the results with you all. i'm really surprised there isn't a well-known rule of thumb for this. i googled but somehow it's a hard thing to google for.

xpost: awesome, Chinchilla! this is Science we are doing here now! is that with the sleeves or ... naked?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

with sleeves...

― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

THE AVERAGE WEIGHT OF A RICHARD HARRIS ALBUM: 296 GRAMS

A Tramp Shining = 355
+The Yard Went On Forever = 314
+My Boy = 268
+Slides = 247
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=1184
/4
=296

― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

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― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

i had some friends drive cross country with a trailer full of boxes of records. it was soooo heavy that the trailer pushed down on the wheels and caused them to pop from the friction

― jäxøñ (jaxon), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

If this is for shipping large amounts, i.e. hundreds, isn't it usually calculated by volume? That's certainly how pickfords charged me when I moved to singapore...

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 06:23 (nineteen years ago)

Just round it to 250 grams.

According to my digital scale

what you sellin?

― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 06:27 (nineteen years ago)

I keep it around for just such an urgent eventuality as this thread. And for measuring ingredients for cooking. And for monitoring the weight of rodents!

― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 07:07 (nineteen years ago)

I remember my crates of records weighing about 60lb each (for 125 albums with plastic sleeves).

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

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