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Old 07-19-2006, 06:46 PM
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Vegetable oil-How many LB/Gal?

How much does a gallon of Vege oil weight? Someting like 7.6 pounds per gallon?

I'm buying by the pound, so I want to be fairly accurate.

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Old 07-19-2006, 06:57 PM
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yep seems to be in that neighborhood......http://www.fsa.usda.gov/daco/CommodityRequirements/Domestic/VP7.pdf 7.7lbs.
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Old 07-19-2006, 07:05 PM
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How much does a gallon of Vege oil weight? Someting like 7.6 pounds per gallon?

I'm buying by the pound, so I want to be fairly accurate.
It probably depends what you mean by Veg Oil, because different types will have different densities. FWIW, my handbook lists linseed oil as 58 lb/ft3 at 25C. That comes out to 7.75 lb/gallon. Maybe someone else has more data?
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carried

i just carried 4 cubbies out of a bar.. and they were heavy...
felt like 45 pounds each... I could put one on the bathroom scale for you if you want...

I think water weighs 8 pounds a gallon and I am pretty sure oil weighs over 7.
becasue i have been lugging it around...

in your mind just caculate that it weighs 8 and buy that way and you will give yourself a little bouns.....you might get an extra 10 gals for every 800 pounds you buy... using the weight of water.
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I use soybean oil. It comes in 35 lb cubbies. 4.7 gal per cubbie. thats 7.44 lbs per gal. as mentioned different oils weigh diff. but it's close.
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Old 07-19-2006, 09:28 PM
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I use soybean oil. It comes in 35 lb cubbies. 4.7 gal per cubbie. thats 7.44 lbs per gal. as mentioned different oils weigh diff. but it's close.
Ok, looks like most oils are between 7.4 and 7.75 lb per gallon.

I just bought some "vegetable oil" from Sams for about 2.63 a gallon, using the above weights. Its sold by the 35lb cubie.



I think its safe to say that we should keep the buying of Sams and Costco oil on the quiet side.
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Old 07-19-2006, 10:27 PM
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The BJs oil here says 35lbs, 18 quarts on the side. That's 4.5 gallons by my calculations.

$2.99/gallon here.

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Old 07-19-2006, 10:30 PM
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I think its safe to say that we should keep the buying of Sams and Costco oil on the quiet side.
Posting it on a public forum is a good way to keep it a secret, shhh.
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Old 07-20-2006, 09:30 AM
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I poured a Sam's club 35# Soybean Oil cube into 1 gallon marked containers.
It came out to 4.6 gallons for the cube.

Water weighs 8.33 pounds per gallon.

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Old 07-20-2006, 01:05 PM
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Try this web site: http://www.processassociates.com/process/basics/oil_vw.htm

Also according to USDA vegetable oil weighs 7.7 lbs. + or -

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