How to weigh a car using a tape measure and a tyre pressure gauge
There are two pretty good ways to weigh a car: Drive it to the nearest public weighbridge and wait your turn. Look up the manual under General Specifications, ‘kerb weight’ But let's suppose the nearest public weighbridge is fifty miles away and you've lost the manual (and temporarily forgotten how to use public libraries and the Internet) and the burning urge to weigh your car just won't go away- what can you do about it? The good news is, you need hardly any equipment. All you need, for a reasonably accurate result is: a hand-held tyre pressure gauge which can be analogue or digital a retractable steel measuring tape a calculator, pencil and paper, or a good head for mental arithmetic The method Park the car on some clean, level concrete Observe that the car is held up by its four tyres (!) Measure the width of the tread of one tyre: e.g. 6 inches Measure the length of tread in contact with the ground: e.g. 7 inches Work out the area of tread touching the ground: e.g. 6 x
If you've put up an invite for requests, there might be no looking back. There was a snap of someone in a cute yellow shirt, if I recall correctly. I think it's time to congratulate you on the visitor count and to keep my imagination on standby, for the time being.
ReplyDeleteAfter Ramadan, the music in Stufital is to come from a new band. We'll see if they are as amenable to 'guest spots' as their predecessors, then review the request situation!
ReplyDeletethe music in Stufital is to come from a new band >> to come up to a new level ;-) ?
ReplyDeleteI don't know the answer to that yet, but in a couple of days I'm sure I'll find out!
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