westcoaster

Alright, how much is a quart?

I am buying premixed concrete bags and you need to add 3.5 quarts to every 66lb bag of concrete.

Since I am one of those mixed up canadians that grew up during the conversion from imperial to metric, I have no clue how much a quart is....

TxDiesel007

A typical US quart,

of water per say, is 32 fluid ounces, a Liter is 33.9 ounces if im not mistaken. Im assuming that ur speaking of water?

Lets see, u need 3.5 quarts of water per 66 lb bag,

U will need 3.5 quarts x 32 ounces = 113.6 ounces of water, which is just shy of a liquid gallon of 128 ounces,

Hope this helps

RIck

Fronty Owner

7 pints is 3.5 quarts

fozzy777

1 liquid quart (US) = 0.946 L

Iron Mike

3.5 qt is = to 3.3 liter Just kidding on the duhh. it's actually 3.312235 L , but I figured 3.3 was close enough.

westcoaster

Thanks for the replies,
Now I have to go pour some concrete.....

MikeyB

Here's a good little program that takes the guesswork out of conversions.
http://joshmadison.net/software/convert/

MikeyB

Commatoze

I hate the metric system!!!

megajoltman

I agree

new2ctd

My favorite one here. http://www.onlineconversion.com/
I use it for concrete work also.

Iron Mike

I disagree. After using it quite extensively the last 3 years I love it.
What I hate is using both system's. Having to have 2 set's of tools. I wish we would just change everything and be done with it. 1L is 1 kg. a cubic meter is 1000L which is 1 metric ton. BAR G is even OK when you get used to it. Instead of 8-1/2 x 11 and 8-1/2 x 14 you have A4 paper which is somewhere in between. It is a system that makes sense. If we would just change over cold turkey and teach it in school the next generation would love us for it. It makes everything a lot easier for commerce in a Global economy. It would save us money in the long run.

westcoaster

Going on 30 years after we changed, were still not fully converted. we have 2x4's plywood is in 4x8 sheets I know I'm getting good fuel economy when I'm at 20 Mpg I know 0*c is freezing and 22*c is room temperature your celing is generally 8 feet off the floor and all the short measurements are in feet and inches, all the long distances are in kilometers. I jump on the bathroom scale and I am 194 pounds but I know how much 500 grams are.

I suppose it's just me and what I have grown up with knowing. Some things are easier in metric and others are easier in imperial.

The concrete turned out ok, I don't think much of the premixed "just add water" bags. In my mind the stones need to be larger. That stuff was not much more than course sand....

Edit: the sign in home depot read : for each 30Kg bag makes approx .52 cu foot

BearKiller

AMEN to that.

I say if someone wants to use communist measuring system, they should move over there where they already are messed up and leave us Americans and our feet, inches, pounds, and gallons, alone.

bentwings

63,500 grams.!!! We're on a diet tomorrow.

nickleinonen

i use both and prefer metric for fine measurements.. normally not a problem, but with the old guys i work with, they are imperal measurements.. so their idea of a quart or gallon is more than my idea of a quart or gallon [i only use us numbers for gallons/quarts/pints]