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What is the weight of a built Cortina upright i.e. with hubs, discs bearings, calipers and dust plate?
Thanks.
Heavy. But iirc lighter than sierra ones. This has been talked about before.
I'm not after comparisons, I just want the weight please.
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Originally posted by Danozeman
This has been talked about before.
twice as much as half of it ! ( joke)
As i happen to have one of each laying around in my living room. (Yes I am single, how did you know?) On my bathroom scale, uprights without disk and
calipers:
Cortina 6kg
Sierra 5,5kg
all up, cortina was about 15kg, sierra about 16
tom
Can't be sure that's the answer is there but Fluke have a weight database.
http://www.fluke-motorsport.
co.uk
Just weighed the gear on the bathroom scales this morning. Everything bar the pair of caliper fixing bolts which are in a box somewhere and that
backplate thing which I chucked out ages ago. The scales said 14kg.
That was with a solid cortina disc. Bearing grease, grease caps, pads etc. Its all assembled apart from bolting the caliper to the upright. The
missing bits can only weigh a few ounces if that.
The scales are electronic and fairly new but I cant vouch for any accuracy of them. I guess the fifteen kilo figure mentioned before is probably
correct.
[Edited on 31/7/06 by RichieW]
Thanks.
i'd go with your 14kg, tbh. i used a scabby old set of analogue scales. the reading is repeatable, but that says nothing about the accuracy.
there's still not a lot between the 2 setups weightwise anyway.
at least we're in the same ballpark
tom
anybody got the weight of the caliper alone then?
From my "feelometer" the caliper seems to be the heavy bit (I'm not using them for that reason)
One newly reconditioned M16 caliper with new pads, shims, springs and a little rubber cap on the bleed nipple came in at 4.4kg.
Couldn't get the scales to repeat the measurement as it kept saying "ERR" as its probably about as low a weight the scales will
measure. I put the other caliper on the scales and the two came in at 8.7kg
Think the 4.35kg figure will be probably the more accurate of the two measurements. Either way, bloody heavy.
Hey ho Danozeman
Have you still got that box you collected from me. Pinch your wives scales and weigh the bits.
We are all curious!!!
ahh, cheers folks, good to know the raceleda calipers have saved a bit then.
1.47kg each vs 4.35kg each for the 'tina ones.