How does a rod balancer stand work?
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Drifting
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From: Allen, TX, USA
How does a rod balancer stand work?
These are the $120-$180 tools that seem to be just a plate
and a rod standing up.
It appears that all it does is hold one end of the rod allowing the
other one to rest on a scale for measurement.
Is that all there is to this? I'm looking at this thinking, spend $100+
dollars for something this simple? What am I missing?
How are these really used to get the correct weight of one end of a
rod?
and a rod standing up.
It appears that all it does is hold one end of the rod allowing the
other one to rest on a scale for measurement.
Is that all there is to this? I'm looking at this thinking, spend $100+
dollars for something this simple? What am I missing?
How are these really used to get the correct weight of one end of a
rod?
Melting Slicks
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Pretty much it. You weigh all the small ends and record the lightest one than you make all of them weigh that weight. Than you weigh all the big ends and do the same thing. Than you make sure they all weigh the same total weight.
Neal
Neal
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Originally Posted by chevymans 77
Pretty much it. You weigh all the small ends and record the lightest one than you make all of them weigh that weight. Than you weigh all the big ends and do the same thing. Than you make sure they all weigh the same total weight.
Neal
Neal
You can not balance rods without it.
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From: Living in the Hartland
I just threw mine a digital scale and got them to the gram, might not be NASCAR/INDY accurate way of doing it but better than nothing, borrowed the scale from my g/f's jewelry store so it cost me nothing.
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Drifting
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From: Allen, TX, USA
>Weigh the small ends... then the big ends...
So you adjust the stand until the rod is parallel and then measure?
Seems the mass would be different if the other end is higher or lower
than the parallel point...
Anyone know what the general mass of the big end/small end is?
Thanks.
So you adjust the stand until the rod is parallel and then measure?
Seems the mass would be different if the other end is higher or lower
than the parallel point...
Anyone know what the general mass of the big end/small end is?
Thanks.
