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Date:         Thu, 14 May 1998 14:34:59 -0700
Reply-To:     David Bayer <bayer@SYBASE.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         David Bayer <bayer@SYBASE.COM>
Subject:      Balancing rods
Comments: To: vanagon@vanagon.com

Ok, I almost give up, does anyone have any tricks for wieghing the ends of the rods? I am trying to do this a la the discussion at the end of the Muir book for balancing rods which states having the all bottoms ends balanced and all top ends balanced is more important than having the overall rod balanced. The trouble is, I cannot get an accurate reading off the triple beam balance I am using to do this (the weight of the end changes as the scale moves up and down ;) ). Is there any easy way of correting this that I am missing (short of buying an expensive ditigal scale which can handle 750 grams but doesn't move at all when you put weight on it)? I was pretty good with the pistons - they are all within .2 grams of each other - so I would like to get the rods as close as possible too. Any suggestions on this topic are much appreciated...

dave


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