Topic: 24 ounce waxed cotton canvas!
Anonymous A started this discussion 6 years ago #97,303
24 OUNCE! Thicker than any other bag, fora!
chill dog !!81dzJNNYL joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 29 minutes later[^] [v] #1,098,446
Fluid or solid ounce? Why do two units of measure, one of volume and one of weight, share the same name?
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 22 minutes later, 51 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,098,447
@previous (chill dog !!81dzJNNYL)
The word comes to English from the Latin uncia meaning a unit that was one-twelfth of some whole. Naturally, we now use it to mean a fluid unit of measure equal to one sixteenth of a pint (US) or one twentieth of a pint (UK) or as a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound. This is mostly still happening because people in the US believe signs posted on telephone poles claiming that the metric system is bizarre and confusing.
@OP
Why are we even measuring canvas by the ounce? Is weight per unit area even applicable once it is waxed? Are you counting the wax in the weight?
The word comes to English from the Latin uncia meaning a unit that was one-twelfth of some whole. Naturally, we now use it to mean a fluid unit of measure equal to one sixteenth of a pint (US) or one twentieth of a pint (UK) or as a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound. This is mostly still happening because people in the US believe signs posted on telephone poles claiming that the metric system is bizarre and confusing.
@OP
Why are we even measuring canvas by the ounce? Is weight per unit area even applicable once it is waxed? Are you counting the wax in the weight?
dreamworks joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 3 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,098,465
There's like $20 of canvas in that bag ?
