Measuring Air Space

[jizazz12]

thank's for the tip brewer brewer.

[Forevrbumpn]

lol... packing peanuts, ping pong balls, cheetos, or sand. IT WORKS

and if your off by 5% WHO CARES 5% isnt 25%

and you get a damn good idea where your at

If you lived close, I would give you all the packing peanuts I have

[raytard]

could divide your horse shoe shape into a rough rectangle and a triangle, all you need really is a straight edge and a tape measure and like a minute to do the calculations (LxWxH for the rectangle, and 1/2LxWxH for the triangle), should be pretty close

or the peanut thing, but if its going to be a little off either way, might as well do it the fast and not messy way...

[rusty959]

And the peanut idea is terrible. Go buy a big jar of something like Cheetos puffs... Empty them into a big bowl, then try to dump all of them back into the jar.... MAGIC! You'll fill it up and still have half a bowl of Cheetos.

Unless you vibrate the shit out of it each time you transfer the peanuts into a box/well you'll never get an accurate measurement since the entropy jumps off the charts every time you move them around.

EDIT: Stick with brewer on the math. And don't worry about light curvature as it will be a negligible amount that won't affect the performance of the box.

Yes, the first time of trying to put them back in will be very inaccurate. But, every time after that, it will be much closer to perfect since they will be settling similar amounts between putting them in the bowl and jar etc.

Also some types of packing peanuts etc and other things you could use will be much less affected by settling than say cheetos as they don't have the rough edges, so they will naturally fall into place better.

you even mentioned yourself being off some with the number won't matter...

lol... packing peanuts, ping pong balls, cheetos, or sand. IT WORKS

and if your off by 5% WHO CARES 5% isnt 25%

and you get a damn good idea where your at

If you lived close, I would give you all the packing peanuts I have

x2

So why did I make this post? To pretty much say either will work fine. You don't have to do huge amounts of calculations to get a good box set up. (usually)

im going to college to be an engineer and id still rather do the packing peanut method than do the calculations... unless you do like raytard suggsted to get a bs estimate then maybe add a tad for the unnacounted for portions.