Weight watching an 80-ton load
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• Heavy engineering specialist William Kenyons Ltd, of Dukinfield, Ches, recently manufactured for a firm in Hungary a large heat exchanger, the accurate weight of which was not known. The vehicle used to carry it to Hungary had a total payload capacity of 80 tons, which was close to the calculated weight of the load.
It was decided, therefore, that the heat exchanger should be weighed accurately to avoid overloading and the task was' entrusted to Peak Components Ltd, New
Road, Harwich End, Whaley Bridge, near Stockport, which has taken over the production and marketing of the Loadax • electronic self-weighing equipment first developed by Wirral Automation Ltd, Neston, Ches (CM December 311971).
Standard Loadax transducers were fitted to four special load cells manufactured at Peak Components and calibrated to plus or minus 0.5 per cent on a loading machine at Salford University.
The heat exchanger was jacked up by a 90-ton hydraulic jack loaned by Manchester lifting tackle specialist Peter Cassidy Ltd. When the load cells were placed in position the weight was found to be 75.2 tons.