As above, hire or buy please, or pointer to supplier.

Get down to Tesco and get 4 bathroom scales, few lengths of 4x2 and your away.

Well yes, but I really wanted the real thing

demon tweeks do them.

bath scales are accurate for most though.

TT

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ELECTRONIC-BATHROOM-SCALES-EKS-FLAT-WIDE-PLATFORM-200KG_W0QQitemZ280416074197QQcmdZViewItem?rvr_id=&rvr_id=&cguid=1c189e 4d11d0a0aad4c52965ff9ba9db

4x200KG

TT

Thanks TT
Bathroom scales going up to 200KG ?
Who ate all the pies then ?

Just in case anybody else gets caught -

I bought electronic bathroom scales but it's almost impossible to use them.

They switch on by tapping them upon which they set zero. Then you apply the weight and they give reading. But they switch off again after 10 secs.

So you lift the wheel on the jack, slip scales under wheel, tap to switch on, lower wheel swiftly onto scales and try to take a reading before scales switch off again. No question of getting a continuous reading while you adjust spring platforms etc. Maybe they're not all like that but I've gone back to mechanical scales.

[Edited on 10/10/10 by Macbeast]

Home Bargains have 180kg ones in for £9.99 each...

£160 from merlin motorsport.

I honestly don't know why people insist on bodging something like this. Either do it or don't do it, but to get decent readings and adjustments just do it - properly.

When you consider that the scales might cost you £40 then some wood (£free - £20) etc, that is quite a difference to £160. However, the gauge would be worth at least £100 on ebay if you ever changed your mind to sell it, so in theory you are getting an accurate reading for the smae price.................

And if you don't want to invest the money and don't see yourself doing it more than once or twice, then get yourselves down to local motorsport place - I don't know how much they all charge, but I went to Matt's (PROCOMP) and he was £30...

Sorry if this sounds like a lecture, and it's not actually directed at anyone pacifically, but it just comes up so often as a bodge, yet when I did mine (and then subsequently borrowed scales and did Welderman's myself) it made a huge and positive difference to the cars for a relatively small amount of money...

ATB
Steve