Jockey Wheels with Nose gauge

Carting bathroom scales around?

Works for me. Probably only the start of the season these days. Little changes otherwise

Why cart anything around? Our packing does not change. Maybe a few more spuds a little less gas. No significant change for us on the noseweight. 

Quite.

As I said earlier - no need to cart anything around once set up. For me the beauty of cheap bathroom scales is simple. I can stand on them and check the calibration as We also have a more sophisticated set that are accurate.

remember what they are called, GAUGES. this means that they are not  accurate and just an indicator. they work on a spring system and when you compress and release springs they go weaker and become even less accurate. how many are calibrated and how many get tested after each season. none. get a cheap set of scales from argos, weigh yourself at a chemists and see how far out they are and most have a wheel at the bottom to adjust the dial indicator to get it nearly right, or do what EasyT says and have an accurate set at home.

Me and bathroom scales just do not get on, whenever I use them they upset me so best avoided.

I have the milenco noseweight gauge which because the stick-on scale fell off I recalibrated to suit our current tow car at 85 kg. Very generously our caravanning friends bought me a jockey wheel with a built in gauge for my birthday. Absolutely useless, never read the same thing twice and when compared to my Milenco gauge it was nowhere near by about 20kg, enough to be dangerously out.

In deference to others who are confident they load their vans to exactly the same noseweight every time I'm afraid I always check the noseweight every time I hitch up other than to put it in or take it out of storage.

Has paid off a couple of times once when I forgot to empty the hot and cold water tanks and another time when my brother had without my knowledge put several cases of drink under the front bed locker then forgotten to tell me!

Hi All

Some really great comments! but like dmiller555 when I now use the bathroom scales they tell me to get off! and then say one at a time please..lol

Anyway will probably stick to the old Milenco yellow pole which seems to tell me the right thing give or take!

But never the less a good discussion overall so thanks everyone who commented!

Have the BPW one, was on the van when we bought it. I don’t think it’s all that accurate but it serves as an ‘approximate indicator’ and as has been pointed out above, it gives the jockey wheel some suspension movement over rough ground when on the mover. Whilst I can’t tell to the kg what the noseweight is, I can instantly see if the noseweight is way too high or way too low prior to hitching.

I wouldn’t buy one specially though