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Originally Posted by Steven Smith
Thanks for testing and making your first post to Chief Delphi a good one 
Could you describe how you measured the 6 pounds of force? |
Honestly, it was a complete guess and the although I did actually run the "experiments" 3 different ways 10-12 times, the entire post was laden with dry humor and mild sarcasm. Really, that was just what it felt like to me as I picked them up and set them down, BUT I did go and check the friction coefficient between skin and plastic, and it looks to be ~0.98 as described here ->
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2005/skin.shtml for dry skin. Given this and the weight of the totes at 7.8 pounds you can deduce that to grip the sides with dry hands you would need about 7.9 pounds of contact pressure, maybe a bit less with sweaty hands, so I wasn't too far off the first time when I said "no less than 6 pounds"!