Plastic Drums

The lobster fishermen here in New England favor these for carrying bait. Used plastic drums are easily available for $10-20 US from fishing supply and hardware stores. Many of the barrel shaped containers in this area originally carried imported apple juice concentrate. I've never seen a label on the straight sided drums, so don't know what they might have carried originally.

Ned Simmons

Convert to inches and gallons please?

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If yer gotta ask fer that, yer not likely to be much use as a UK based supplier, now, are ya! :-)

Cheers Trevor Jones

Here is the link to download a nice little conversion program. No installation, just put it on your desktop, or somewhere handy. Converts just about any unit of measure, distance, volume, etc. It's called CONVERT, it's free, it's small:

Gallons? Must have missed something and am too lazy to read the entire thread...

Anyhow... I disagree with the numbers above. You convert by 25.400072 or

540mm = 21.25984251968503937007874015748"

Based on 25.4000 conversion... LOL and an evil grin.

Regardless, there is no perceivable difference between the two unless you are in some super-industry that needs the tolerances that close.

I didn't see it either. Lazy times two = 2 lazy.

I just copied the CONVERTER results, don't know what it's formula is. But I use the other conversion 0.03937*mm=inches. Then you get 21.2598 and 23.622 which is the same, rounded off.

I would certainly agree with that, especially in regards to the original post.

Sure was a fun trip though... :)