That should work. Also if have a large side view photo of the car you could
do that with the photo?? Cut out the car first...... I did that with my car
(photo) and it is very close. You can also scale the photo and calculate
the area and get close.
What do you think Dr. Mayf?
Skip (bench racing is fun even before getting to Pahrump)
At 04:09 PM 9/9/02 -0400, Waldron, James wrote:
>Skip,
>
>Yeah. The CG has always seemed pretty easy (especially since I found that
>the state department of weights and measures will loan me a certified scale
>good up to 2000lbs). It was always trying to calculate/figure our the CP.
>This web site suggests an interesting technique of projecting the profile of
>the object onto a sheet of paper (a scale model in this case I think),
>cutting out the profile, and then finding where the center of balance of the
>paper is - which they claim is the CP! (?) (Sounds too easy.)
>
>Perhaps you or the good Dr. Mayf could comment further?
>
>Thanks,
>Jim.
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