Quote Originally Posted by eesakiwi View Post
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Another side note.
We sell our metal in Kg's. If every amount of metal coming in was random, it would average out as 500gms, on average, extra on every sale. Every sale!
100 sales would have the scrapmetal dealer getting 50Kgs of free copper!
and 50 x NZ$7/Kg = free NZ$350!!!

(or NZ$3.50 per sale) NZ$ = US$0.81cents at the moment

The scrapmetal dealers could make a huge profit by just changing to Metric....... It'd make calculating a whole lot easyer too.



Also,I think thats why our scrapmetal dealer likes to put metals into their different catagorys
Not sure how scales are calibrated there, but here scales round up/down, they don't just count the full units of measurements. For example, if you have 17.6 lbs. of copper, the scale will read 18, not just the 17 "full" lbs. This is on the pallet/platform scales, no idea if it also applies to drive-on scales.