Ok, I almost give up, does anyone have any tricks for wieghing the
ends of the rods? I am trying to do this a la the discussion at the end of the
Muir book for balancing rods which states having the all bottoms ends balanced
and all top ends balanced is more important than having the overall rod
balanced. The trouble is, I cannot get an accurate reading off the triple
beam balance I am using to do this (the weight of the end changes as the scale
moves up and down ;) ). Is there any easy way of correting this that I am
missing (short of buying an expensive ditigal scale which can handle 750
grams but doesn't move at all when you put weight on it)? I was pretty good
with the pistons - they are all within .2 grams of each other - so I would
like to get the rods as close as possible too. Any suggestions on this
topic are much appreciated...

dave