Replacing lead weights with US nickel coins

[stretchthepenn]

I must admit that assuming the block to be a cube is incorrect, but <snip>

Milk production at a dairy farm was low, so the farmer wrote to the local university, asking for help from academia. A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive on-site investigation took place. The scholars then returned to the university, notebooks crammed with data, where the task of writing the report was left to the team leader. Shortly thereafter the physicist returned to the farm, saying to the farmer, "I have the solution, but it works only in the case of spherical cows in a vacuum."

Spherical cow - Wikipedia

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[OMyMyOHellYes]

the physicist returned to the farm, saying to the farmer, "I have the solution, but it works only in the case of spherical cows in a vacuum."

Spherical cow - Wikipedia

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That sucks. Just roll with it, Elsie.

 

[Rick Brant]

I'm surprised none of the psi-pinching tech divers have weighed (pun) in on this. This approach allows one to dial in a weight to within two nickels of accuracy. No longer are we forced to choose the closest 2lb interval for our weight. Take out two nickels per dive unitl you reach your perfect weight. If nickels were not, well, five cents, I would expect a vendor to start selling $0.25 "weight disks". It's positively Hogwartian. Or negatively Hogwartian, depending.

 

[Mobulai]

I'm surprised none of the psi-pinching tech divers have weighed (pun) in on this. This approach allows one to dial in a weight to within two nickels of accuracy. No longer are we forced to choose the closest 2lb interval for our weight. Take out two nickels per dive unitl you reach your perfect weight. If nickels were not, well, five cents, I would expect a vendor to start selling $0.25 "weight disks". It's positively Hogwartian. Or negatively Hogwartian, depending.

Don’t give them any ideas now, bigH might get into the minting biz

 

[Mobulai]

The all new balanced rig coin vest system — also good for shark attacks

 

[Rick Brant]

**** I had not even considered balance!

 

[schuylerclark]

I like this concept. For me it makes sense and I won't buy any more lead weights, but just use some bags to fill up. Whether this solves a problem for the dive industry is a separate issue, and I'm sure I'll use whatever's available when traveling, but there's no downside for me personally and if it encourages a slow shift in the industry, I don't see where that would hurt either. Another small way to reduce, reuse, recycle.

 

[BoltSnap]

Is this legal in the US?

 

[Umuntu]

Is this legal in the US?

Why not, you are just keeping them in a pocket with you while diving

I think if you wanted to melt them down into weights or alter or destroy them, that would be very different.

 

[lowwall]

Is this legal in the US?

Yes. You can do whatever you want to US currency if you are willing to take it out of circulation. What is illegal is modifying it and then intending to or actually using it as currency.

We even have machines at tourist attractions that take pennies ($.01 coins) and press them into souvenirs.