They are rated up to 130kg. A 1000 lb platform scale is 170 bucks.
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How to weigh a car with bathroom scales. We did this for weighing corners on our rock crawler when we were moving the axles around. Plenty for my car as i reckoned it only weighed 505kg. Surely putting two under each wheel would give close to the correct weight. After lots of messing about i finally got them to read accurately. Where does one have to sit on the see saw in the playground with the big kid to make it balanced. Ive just purchased four sets of bathroom scales from my local department store ten pounds each.
My cars handbook says the car weighs on average 1375 kg. Weighing your car on bathroom scales. 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. Bathroom scales are about 10 each so i wondered if i could use theses instead. I had to spend plenty of time getting them flat on the. Measure the distance from the floor to the top of the 2x6 or whatever.
The simplest analogy is that of the infamous see saw quandary. Weigh each corner and do some math. B athroom scales can weigh up to 180 kg each so 1375 divided by 180 is roughly 8. Put the support with the mark near one end on this support. This saves you 30 bucks but then you have to deal with owning 10 scales and using wood and shit. Just drop the car on to some bits of 6x2 and then roll the car on to the scales.
Support the other end of the board with a support placed under the mark at the other end to give this measured height. Raise the other three wheels to this same height.