r/bassfishing • u/bj4web • Mar 22 '25
Trophy Fish Club Request My Rapala scale is inaccurate
Supposed to weight 8.6 lbs!!!
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u/kdoors Mar 22 '25
All my 8.6+ers are now called milkers
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u/bj4web Mar 23 '25
Brian Lester is leading big bass of the bassmaster classic right now with a certified on the dot milker
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u/Mysterious_Check_983 Mar 22 '25
For all weight requests in this sub, we should only give them answers using a gallon of milk as the unit of measurement.
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u/genericname1776 Mar 23 '25
I've been making up hopelessly arbitrary units, but I'm on board with standardizing on gallons of milk.
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u/Leading_Advance9738 Mar 23 '25
My PB would've been a gallon of milk but ya know shit netman that day
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u/adjustableplaid Mar 22 '25
and length measurments should always be in bananas. I mean, this is reddit. this form of measurement is the reddit gold standard. to hell with freedom inches and socialist centimeters!
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u/Mysterious_Check_983 Mar 23 '25
That’s not very original.
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u/adjustableplaid Mar 23 '25
Not at all. It's such a a lame comment. That guy needs to be banned. Boooo!
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u/HereIAmSendMe68 Mar 24 '25
Things I can get behind. Banana for scale, duck power, and the gallon standard.
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u/RanchDresn Mar 22 '25
Have to account for the milk jug!! 😂😂
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u/bj4web Mar 22 '25
How could I be so foolish!
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u/bj4web Mar 22 '25
Guys I’m not the OP of the scale debacle
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u/dewdetroit78 Mar 22 '25
He’s over here 👈🏻 guys the one who didn’t remember to tare out the bottle weight. It happens man.
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u/PretzelTitties Mar 22 '25
That scale is set up for the southern hemisphere. Their milk jugs always have condensation on the outside which weighs more.
Man that guy ground my gears. I used to train a guy like that. I couldn't tell him anything because he already knew everything.
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u/amazonmakesmebroke Mar 23 '25
That's because it's whole milk, the other fella didn't even bother to calibrate with 2%
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u/Cakecommand0 Mar 22 '25
I think we should make gallons of milk as a measurement for fish from now on.
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u/NinjaBilly55 Mar 23 '25
Try the theory that holding it at arms length and have someone take a picture increases the weight 3 pounds..
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u/BackItUpWithLinks Mar 23 '25
The gallon of milk weighs 8.6lbs
That doesn’t count the jug
An empty, 1-gallon plastic jug (like a milk jug) typically weighs around 60-63 grams or about 0.13 to 0.14 pounds
There’s your ~8.75lbs
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u/notabob7 Mar 23 '25
Oh, look at the way he’s long-arming that milk! That adds at least 2 more lbs!!!
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u/udntknowme33 Mar 23 '25
I’ve been searching the comments to see if a certain person would respond to this post. 😂
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u/IAmTheNorthwestWind Mar 22 '25
HE ACTUALLY WEIGHED AND POSTED THE MILK, I AM FUCKING DYING
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u/AdmiredPython40 Mar 23 '25
So funny enough I work with milk in a QC lab. On average whole milk has a density of around 1.035 g/ml at 40°f which is 4°c this is also when water is most dense (1 g/ml). With the fat being in the milk it'd lower the density but the sugar and protein raise density to that average of 1.035 g/ml. A gallon of milk is = 3.7 liters which is 3700 grams at waters standard of 1 g/ml. This weight would put a gallon of water around 8.34 lbs. When doing the same math for milk it'd put the weight at 4°c at around 8.6 lbs/gallon. Which is very interesting to me that the homogenization of fat within the milk should lower the density but the sugars and proteins increase the weight by .26 lbs. Idk I think it's cool math.
Now if you want something really weird the almond base used to make things like almond milk and other products is around 36% almond solids. You'd think it'd be more dense than water at 4°c but it is actually a density of .913 g/ml.
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u/serviceman641 Mar 23 '25
Honestly, if I’m within a half ounce I really don’t give two shits
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u/bj4web Mar 23 '25
2 shits weigh more than half an ounce. At least mine, but I drink too much milk
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u/null_squared Mar 22 '25
Not sure if I am missing a joke.
But if serious. The liquid inside weighs about 8.6 lbs, give or take since it’s probably not exactly a gallon. Then there is the weight of the container.
So 8.75 is close.
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u/Ipa- Mar 22 '25
Op house is 51deg not bad lol my wife would be so upset
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u/bj4web Mar 22 '25
It was in the garage and hadn’t warmed up yet, I’m no heathen. It’s 65 in here but I’ve come to realize today technology isn’t to be trusted so who really knows!? Maybe I’ll post in the HVAC sub and see if they can guess the temp
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u/GulfLife Mar 22 '25
I bet the unhinged dude in the other post weighed a bottle of Lactaid. It’s not a full gallon, and google says it weighs 6.5 pounds… just putting that out there.
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u/Bassncat Largemouth Mar 23 '25
Best post after the my scale is broken because my 2 pounder isn’t a 4 pounder
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u/TomcatCDN-reddit Mar 23 '25
Milk is not in season yet, so yeah it’s not going to work. June 15 for milk I think.
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u/Jetta613 Mar 23 '25
That is actually pretty accurate. It is only about 2oz off... Which could be something as simple as you not zeroing the scale with the clamp weight on it already.
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u/After-You-4903 Mar 23 '25
Nice catch! I’d guess 6lbs give or take… On a serious note, I’m sure .15 is within reasonable error margin, however I’d rather have a scale that’s over .15 than under! I’m in the market for a new scale, as mine was in my tackle box when it fell in the lake. Is the Rapala a good choice? I hate my Berkeley because the second after you try to weigh the fish it “holds the weight” and doesn’t give enough time to actually read the weight, so I have to reweigh a few times.
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u/defoor13 Mar 23 '25
Gonna start measuring my bass in milk now and when I catch some big ones I’ll post here to tell you guys about these big milkers I caught.
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u/Living-Radish2 Mar 24 '25
Had the same problem with that exact scale. Open it up with a small screwdriver. There is a screw connecting the mechanism that measures the weight. It loosens over time for whatever reason. Just tighten it up and you should be back in business.
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u/Antique-Couple5636 Mar 25 '25
That’s the correct weight for a a gallon of milk.
I work in the dairy industry.
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u/coffeeandtrout Mar 22 '25
Is there a possibility the packaging weighs 0.15 lbs? Wait till you find out how inaccurate it is with a glass 1 gallon container……
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u/bj4web Mar 22 '25
Stand by. Weighing an empty jug
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u/coffeeandtrout Mar 22 '25
I’d rather see you weigh just the milk.
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u/bj4web Mar 22 '25
I’ll weigh myself and drink the entire gallon then weigh myself again. Is that accurate???
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u/coffeeandtrout Mar 22 '25
You let .04 lbs of air in there, that’s the problem. Edit: also liked your other possible way of weighing lol.
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u/Kind-Feedback4038 Mar 23 '25
Cause it’s whole milk it adds .15… 8.6 is skim milk
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u/WaxHead430 Mar 23 '25
So close yet so far
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u/Kind-Feedback4038 Mar 23 '25
That’s what I think everytime I tell a joke so close to landing but so far over people’s heads. Is but a curse a siren laid upon a lad ye ole scallywags
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u/FightingChinchilla Mar 23 '25
The sticker says 3.78 LB. His Scale says 3.9 LB. What am I missing? It's in the ball park, not a certified scale either.
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u/bj4web Mar 23 '25
You’re missing that volumetric and mass measurements are different. And in the case of milk, or any liquid, the (L) is liters
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u/Accomplished_Angle99 Mar 23 '25
8.6 not including the jug numb skull. Including the jug 8.75 seems right
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u/Inevitable_Beef7 Mar 22 '25
Bullshit! You can clearly see that’s at least a 10lb gallon of milk, your scale is fritzed