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Seems like drywall topping mud buckets are pretty "straight sided" ?

A lot of old steel buckets are straight... tar / roofing , etc........... as far as i know, ALL plastic buckets are taper... probably easier to make and stack empty.

GARY(OH/IN) wrote: Those plastic buckets may stack easier but you have to have an air compressor to get them apart.

Most of the STEEL ones are straight.. Would be harder to make a TAPERED wall bucket.. Roofing tar / paint/ etc.

No, we didnt miss the point... The point was you can NOT take 6 oz of water and pour in both gauges and have them BOTH read the same value.... VOLUME has nothing to do with it.... That was the example of 1 inch of water in a coffee cup compared to 1 inch of water in a 5 gallon bucket... BOTH 1 inch.. NOT the same volume.

steve(ill) wrote: Most of the STEEL ones are straight.. Would be harder to make a TAPERED wall bucket.. Roofing tar / paint/ etc.

Um.....so how do they nest for storage if they're straight?

And....don't really think it would be that much harder to make.

jaybmiller wrote: they don't 'nest', same as beer cans, bean cans,pop cans, etc. all have straight sides... Now what I want to know is WHY aren't ALL cans of food 'stackable' in a pantry ? Some cans have slightly rounded bottomes ,so you CAN stack the cans...while others are 'flat' bottomed and don't stack well..... i know, one of life's mysteries.....

they don't 'nest', same as beer cans, bean cans,pop cans, etc. all have straight sides.
Read the ad again. Nice and slow this time!

Edited by Tbone95 - 09 Jun 2020 at 12:13pm

Tbone95 wrote: jaybmiller wrote: they don't 'nest', same as beer cans, bean cans,pop cans, etc. all have straight sides... Now what I want to know is WHY aren't ALL cans of food 'stackable' in a pantry ? Some cans have slightly rounded bottomes ,so you CAN stack the cans...while others are 'flat' bottomed and don't stack well..... i know, one of life's mysteries..... they don't 'nest', same as beer cans, bean cans,pop cans, etc. all have straight sides. Read the ad again. Nice and slow this time!

steve(ill) wrote: Tbone, i think you missread Jay... The steel cans have straight sides, but a small BELL at the top.. With the lid on, the 2nd can will set INTO the lid of the first.. Its only 12/ inch, but keeps one from sliding off when stacked.. A lot of soup cans or beer cans are also made that way. i guess it depends on what your definition of IS is !

Steve, the add you posted says this EXACTLY: "Empty pails nest for storage"

So you put lids on empty buckets? Wow, well there it IS then!

 We be a bunch dumb farmers  but all are so smart they are not looking to move into the big city. I think there may be a couple of you that are up town in the big city  but given half a chance I beat you would move out.

jaybmiller wrote: dang it's HOT here... so ... to me 'nesting' means something goes into another something, pretty dang far, say 90+% inside... 'stacking' means something will go on top of anotehr  something and not generally far over as for rain guages... yeesh, just go buy 3 same brand/same units and PRAY they ALL read the same......

to me 'nesting' means something goes into another something, pretty dang far, say 90+% inside..

EXACTLY! So....did you reread the ad Steve posted?

Edited by Tbone95 - 11 Jun 2020 at 7:17am

the add got it WRONG... There definition of NESTING is the bucket sets 1 inch into the bucket below it... I have bought dozens of steel buckets... They do no NEST.... they STACK as jay said... Look at soup cans, beer cans, etc... as jay said, they STACK.. Plastic tapered buckets NESTS. ............ they are using the wrong word.

Edited by steve(ill) - 11 Jun 2020 at 8:18am

structures wrote: Did the rain gauge ever get solved?  If the new one is just a straight cylinder you should be able to just measure from the bottom with a tape measure and see if the increments were printed off by 1/2".  I would bet the new one is off.

What I wanna know, is how it is ALWAYS 1/2 inch off?

Maybe the last 1/2 inch doesn't get emptied out?

The problem with the rain gauges is they are all BUILT IN CHINA ... They build them in centimeters, and then convert to inches.. Some say there are 2 cm per inch, some say 2.54 cm per inch. !!!