Dave;
How's this for an idea, make a balance beam out of the rods themselves.
Find a piece of tubing whose outside diameter is slightly larger than the
inside diameter of the big end journal. Clamp two rods, horizontally
apposed, on this rod. Supports on either end of the rod so unit can pivot
or roll freely. Then let gravity show you which one's small end is
heavier. I would think a PVC pipe would work nicely . Do the same thing
for the other end but you would have to be a bit more clever fastening
it.
Drive Safely & Good Luck
Ken Lewis<K-ville,NC> Temporarily internetless
86 VW Transporter Double Cab Pickup
60 Porsche T-5 Coupe
85 VW GL Vanagon<Elvis>

On Thu, 14 May 1998 14:34:59 -0700 David Bayer <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
>

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