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Technical Discussion => BMW Technical Q&A, Primarily R65 => Topic started by: Barry on December 08, 2014, 03:08:16 AM

Title: Float Weight
Post by: Barry on December 08, 2014, 03:08:16 AM
This morning was forecast 2 Deg C and sleet with snow on high ground so I thought I'd give the bike a miss and go to work in the car. This gave me an opportunity to do something I've been meaning to do for a while which is to accurately weigh the floats. I've weighed them at 15 grams on an uncalibrated scale at home which suggested they were getting heavy. I whipped them out and took them into the science lab where they have a much more accurate scale.

They weighed 16 grams !

While not quite sinkers that isn't good. I believe they are supposed to weigh 13 - 13.5 grams.  

Anybody weighed their floats either new or old ?  
Title: Re: Float Weight
Post by: Barry on December 16, 2014, 04:01:33 AM
New floats are even lighter than I thought.

Measured on a fancy lab balance that reads in grams to 3 decimal places a new float weighed 12.495 Grams.  Call it 12.5
Title: Re: Float Weight
Post by: Semper Gumby on March 18, 2015, 04:48:25 PM
Just did this.  My new ones weighed in at 12 grams on a digital kitchen scale.  The old ones were barely floating.

D@rn Ethanol...