Nice Forum! I want my first post here to be about:, WEIGHT... (a bunch of cars out there need to get #'s) Options

[brant]

A bunch of you have very nice cars that I'm dying to find out the weight of...
come on gang.
get on some car scales (not truck scales) and post your weights here please...

brant

[Trekkor]

Why not truck scales?

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I know the ones down here at the dump are accurate within 20#'s.
Sometimes I'll be weighing in or out and the scale will teeter back and forth between xx20-xx40, for example.

Within 20#'s is good enough for me for "just knowing".

Corner balance- Whole different thread. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)


KT

[brant]

Why not truck scales?

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

I know the ones down here at the dump are accurate within 20#'s.
Sometimes I'll be weighing in or out and the scale will teeter back and forth between xx20-xx40, for example.
Within 20#'s is good enough for me for "just knowing".
Corner balance- Whole different thread. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
KT

here is my opinion on why NOT truck scales.
Scales are calibrated to be accurate within a certain range.
When i worked in a grain warehouse we used to have the state inspector come in and recalibrate and certify our scales regularly... If you overloaded a scale that was designed to weigh an 80lb bag, it would potentially throw off the calibration.

same thing if you drove a 10,000 lb truck onto a 3,000lb corner balancing car scale. Probably ruin it.

for the same reason a truck scale is calibrated to work accurately with a 20,000 truck. It IS NOT going to be very accurate at 2,000 lbs. It might be 1% off but that is 200lbs difference at 1%.

The truck scale at the dump is probably not even regularly calibrated
if it is even calibrated it is being used outside of its operating range.
If you want to guess within 200 lbs.. thats fine... but I personally don't trust truck scales and would much rather hear about accurate and repeatable numbers.

my $.02
brant