Metal Weight Tables

[bmac2]

I wasn’t sure where to post this (probably Metals) but then I thought “I’ll just through it on the table in the lunch room”
I think there should be a category called “Reference Material”
This is a reference book of Metal Weight Tables from EMJ Metals. Comes in handy when I’m asking myself “could I make the flywheels out of aluminum?” Also my metal guy sells drops/shorts by the pound so it can reduce that little hart murmur when they ring up 11 lbs. of brass.

View attachment Metal Weight Tables.pdf

 

[Brian Rupnow]

I always just remember that steel weighs 0.283 pounds per cubic inch (283 just happens to be the best V8 engine Chev ever made) , that aluminum weighs 1/3 of steel, and brass weighs almost an immeasurable bit more than steel!!!

 

[ausdier]

One of the things I love about my CAD program is that it will tell me the weight or volume of a part or an assembly once I have assigned their particular materials.
Here I have used Elmer's Turbine wheel as an example.
It is done in the 4 most common materials used, Ally, Brass, Mild Steel and Cast Iron.
You can see the Mass changes.

 

[Philjoe5]

I set up an Excel spreadsheet with densities of brass, cast iron, steel and aluminum and I can input the diameter x length of a round a it calculates net weight. Or I can input length x width x thickness and it will calculate net weight of a flat bar.

I find this to be useful when I'm comparing eBay vendors of cutoffs for the best price on a per pound basis delivered to my door cost. It doesn't differentiate alloys because for my purposes anything that's mostly iron has the density of a mild steel.

Cheers,
Phil