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Originally Posted by Bored&Stroked
It is not as easy as you think - you have to balance each end of the rod separately and you have to have a fixture to hold one end and weigh the other and it has to be exactly repeatable each time you take the same rod on/off the scale.
I made a special fixture that has a big roller bearing for the big end, so I could accurately balance the small ends.
This should give you an idea:
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I have to believe that a simple "knife edge" fixture would get you close enough that it wouldn't matter on a low rpm street engine. Actually, I would worry about the "big roller bearing" having enough friction to throw a monkey wrench into the process.