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Originally Posted by CosmicTrucker
A bathroom scale capable of reading weight up to 600lbs placed under each wheel one at a time will get you very close.
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Originally Posted by ckcapaul
This will work if you block each of the tires to the same height
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When we weigh airplanes (where weight and center of gravity is critical), it's done with scales under each wheel. (I've only owned small planes, I have no clue how they weight 747's.)
In the case of using only 1 scale, it seems like Archimedes Principal of Levers would apply. Which I *think* means, ever single wheel would have to be EXACTLY as far of the ground, as the one with the scale under it.
For the engineers in the group, am I missing something?