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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ukma!cs.widener.edu!dsinc!pitt.edu!jsl
  2. From: jsl+@pitt.edu (John S Lundberg)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.support.diet
  4. Subject: Re: Too heavy for scales (was: Re: Fatman returns (hee-hee-hee)
  5. Message-ID: <9913@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
  6. Date: 19 Nov 92 18:40:09 GMT
  7. References: <1992Oct29.111740.1@vax.sonoma.edu> <63620078@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> <17525@pitt.UUCP>
  8. Sender: news+@pitt.edu
  9. Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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  12. In article <17525@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
  13. >I found a freight scale that showed I was 335lbs.  
  14. >Most shipping departments have them.
  15.  
  16. The "Health-o-meter" scale I have at home was purchased from Sears
  17. and has a capacity of 350 lbs.  With some trivial effort such balance
  18. beam scales can be used to measure weights > their stated capacity.
  19. -- 
  20. John Lundberg
  21.