How To Weigh A Car With Bathroom Scales
The simplest analogy is that of the infamous see saw quandary.
How to weigh a car with bathroom scales. If your car s weight is 2 500 kg when it s hitched up and the weight is 2 300 kg unhitched then your ball weight is 200 kg. I ve just purchased four sets of bathroom scales from my local department store ten pounds each. Place the trailer tongue 1 ft from the pipe on the support brick.
I had to spend plenty of time getting them flat on the. This is the tow ball weight based on how you re loading it today. Subtract weight of the unhitched car from the hitched car.
Corner weight your car with bathroom scales i was washing the car this evening and for no particular reason realized a way to corner weight the car with bathroom scales. They are rated up to 130kg. The sturdy my weigh scmxl700t talking bathroom scale features a large weighing platform and has a higher capacity than most scales.
While most scales are limited to around 400 pounds 181 kg. Multiply the reading on the scale by the total distance between the 2 support pipes. Lift one wheel place scales place wood lower wheel repeat tools and parts you will need jack wheel chocks ten bathroom scales rated to 180 kilos wood at least 50mm thick.
Quick video describing how to weigh a trailer tongue at home with a bathroom scale. To use the method in figure b follow these guidelines. Plenty for my car as i reckoned it only weighed 505kg.
Use a brick that is the same thickness as the scale so that the 2 x 4 is level when you weigh. Where does one have to sit on the see saw in the playground with the big kid to make it balanced.