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Originally Posted by Jarren Harkema
3.41 cubic feet total.
Using this, the number of balls that could be held in the boiler stack is approximately 40.
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I'm going to dispute your 3.41 cubic feet figure (I'm getting like 4 cubic feet, 26 in tall cylinder with an approximately 9.1875 in radius which is less than the given number of 10.5 in bc the tube is lower radius than the frustrum), but more importantly how did you get 40? 3.41 cft is 5892 cubic inches, each ball is 65.5 cubic inches for 90 balls, but since sphere packing is only about 74% efficient this is 66 balls in only the cylindrical and frustrum part of the boiler room. How did you only get 40 balls?