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!