Weight of Luxilon Alu 16L reel?

[Xfimpg]

If someone has a full reel (330 or 660) of Luxilon Alu 16L Power Rough or similar, could you kindly weigh it?
I'm buying an opened reel and trying to calculate how many string jobs would be potentially left.
Thanks!

 

[racket king]

That's not going to tell you because you would need to know the weight of the plastic reel without the strings to work out the reel to string weight ratio.

 

[Xfimpg]

That's not going to tell you because you would need to know the weight of the plastic reel without the strings to work out the reel to string weight ratio.

Ok.
So the best way is to measure what is remaining?

 

[Irvin]

All strings are about the same. I can measure the weight of a full and empty reel of a 17 g poly if you want. Are you just trying to get shipping weight? If you are you need the box too. Therefore a good guess is 2 lbs or 1 Kg.

 

[Irvin]

Ok.
So the best way is to measure what is remaining?

Measure the string you have. Next time cut off what you need and measure what you cut off. If you cut off 36' and it weighs 18 g then your string remaining in feet is (weight - empty reel weight) times 2 (36/18 = 0.5 g per foot)

 

[Xfimpg]

All strings are about the same. I can measure the weight of a full and empty reel of a 17 g poly if you want. Are you just trying to get shipping weight? If you are you need the box too. Therefore a good guess is 2 lbs or 1 Kg.

If you could, much appreciated.

 

[Irvin]

Tecnifibre black code 4S full reel 420 g and empty reel is 70 g

EDIT: That's a 660' reel so 660/350 = 1.88571 so if my used reel of string weighed 345 g subtract empty reel to get 275 g of string times 1.88571 = 515' of string left. But because you have a different but similar string this method is probably a little off.

 

[racket king]

All strings are about the same. I can measure the weight of a full and empty reel of a 17 g poly if you want. Are you just trying to get shipping weight? If you are you need the box too. Therefore a good guess is 2 lbs or 1 Kg.

Measure the string you have. Next time cut off what you need and measure what you cut off. If you cut off 36' and it weighs 18 g then your string remaining in feet is (weight - empty reel weight) times 2 (36/18 = 0.5 g per foot)

Tecnifibre black code 4S full reel 420 g and empty reel is 70 g

EDIT: That's a 660' reel so 660/350 = 1.88571 so if my used reel of string weighed 345 g subtract empty reel to get 275 g of string times 1.88571 = 515' of string left. But because you have a different but similar string this method is probably a little off.

Your assumptions are wrong to begin with, which results in all your subsequent calculations being wrong as well.

 

[esgee48]

If you believe the Racquettune string factors' data, the 16L Ga weighs between 0.522-0.525 grams per foot. So 300 feet would weigh between 156.6-157.5 grams. So Irvin is not that far off. BTW, string factors are in grams/meter, which a lot of people use if they have the Racquettune App.