Does anyone have a scale leveling. process that they would share? I've searched but there's nothing particularly specific on the forum.
Seems like it should be simple, but I've been fooling around all day and can't get it to converge. Should have taken surveying in college....
Setup is our scales on four separate longacre levelers.
I pick one pad, make that the reference, then move from there to the others. I use 123 blocks, a square steel tube, and a machinist's level good to .0005/ft. Measure how far off it is by placing feeler gauges under the beam, then calculating how many 1/4ths of a turn of the adjusters, re-check with the level.
When I get them all level from the reference, I check the cross and the side-to-side across the end that doesn't have the reference, and I'm at least .040 off on one of them.
I've tried twice around, three times around, going up halfway on one end and down halfway on the other, and finally picked a point in the center o the pads, put up a stack of reference blocks, and leveled each pad from the center. Basically the same result.
Driving me freaking crazy....