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Re: FW: tongue weight

To: vintage-race@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: FW: tongue weight
From: GOFASTMG@aol.com
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 12:31:55 EDT
In a message dated 4/14/2003 9:57:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
wsthompson@thicko.com writes:

> Hi WST
> been watching your archives for a bit as you know, I just subscribed to 
> your
> list.
> 
> I am going to be towing my car for a distance for the first time in a few
> weeks, and the whole tongue weight thing got me a little concerned (I'm not
> new to trailers, but new to car trailers) was thinking about how to get the
> tongue weight without buying a scale designed for that and came across this
> site. http://rverscorner.com/articles/tongueweight.html Thought maybe some
> of your other Listers could use it as well. I don't have post privileges 
> yet
> on your list, and didn't want to lose this info.
> 
> 

With just a bit of adjustment in the ratio of the lever arm (say 4:1 vs the 2 
or 3:1 as shown), this little setup would work for weighing the corner of the 
race car.

Hmmmm.  I think the house just lost a bathroom scale and the shop gained a 
car scale

Rick Morrison

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