In a message dated 98-05-14 17:35:42 EDT, bayer@SYBASE.COM writes: << 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 >> Dave-- Take the rods to a machinist. They have the tools to do this, and to machine the rods into spec. gmbulley cary, nc 1 week to Buggout! |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.