Floor Scales
Found a place that sells a "kit" for building your own floor scale. My kit can handle 20K. The kit has all the guts you need, I need to provide my own platform. They recommend 3/4 or 1" aluminum. ...
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dons2346 wrote:
" At full weight your tires require 100 psi. So 1 side is 600lbs heavier. That's a difference of 3.5%. So what do you do? One set of tires(side) get's 101.75lbs and the other side get's 98.25lbs. "
This is totally wrong. Tires on the same axle should be set to the weight of the heaviest side.
My mistake, so both sides should be increased by 3.5 psi. Had you just weighed the axle at a CAT scale and assumed both sides the same you would have only increased the pressure 1.75 psi. That leaves your tires under-inflated by a whopping 1.75 psi, assuming your gauge is that accurate. Sounds like a major catastrophe waiting to happen.
