Macbeast
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| posted on 15/1/10 at 05:49 PM |
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Corner weight gauge
As above, hire or buy please, or pointer to supplier.
I'm addicted to brake fluid, but I can stop anytime.
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zetec
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| posted on 15/1/10 at 07:07 PM |
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Get down to Tesco and get 4 bathroom scales, few lengths of 4x2 and your away.
" I only registered to look at the pictures, now I'm stuck with this username for the rest of my life!"
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Macbeast
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| posted on 16/1/10 at 10:17 AM |
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Well yes, but I really wanted the real thing 
I'm addicted to brake fluid, but I can stop anytime.
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twinturbo
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| posted on 16/1/10 at 10:20 AM |
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demon tweeks do them.
bath scales are accurate for most though.
TT
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twinturbo
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| posted on 16/1/10 at 10:24 AM |
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ELECTRONIC-BATHROOM-SCALES-EKS-FLAT-WIDE-PLATFORM-200KG_W0QQitemZ280416074197QQcmdZViewItem?rvr_id=&rvr_id=&cguid=1c189e
4d11d0a0aad4c52965ff9ba9db
4x200KG
TT
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Macbeast
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| posted on 16/1/10 at 10:51 AM |
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Thanks TT
Bathroom scales going up to 200KG ? 
Who ate all the pies then ?
I'm addicted to brake fluid, but I can stop anytime.
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Macbeast
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| posted on 10/10/10 at 08:34 AM |
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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]
I'm addicted to brake fluid, but I can stop anytime.
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coozer
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| posted on 10/10/10 at 10:01 AM |
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Home Bargains have 180kg ones in for £9.99 each...
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 10/10/10 at 11:14 AM |
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£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
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