Predator weight kit

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Darkside7

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do you guys recommend getting the official predator weight kit, or should get the eBay branded one? Everything looks the same except for the price.
 
Darkside7 said:
do you guys recommend getting the official predator weight kit, or should get the eBay branded one? Everything looks the same except for the price.
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Looks the same visually. What do the reviews say? I am inclined to say they are fine. The technology is about as rudimentary as it comes.
 
Predator uses M16x1.5 threads for their weight bolts. Just buy an assortment of different lengths of set or grub screws, get a long allen wrench of the right size ( think this will be 10 mm, but check. At least it isn't the two pin thingy they want to sell you for an exorbitant price), weigh them on a good kitchen scale and go at it. I do the same thing with the 1/2-13 bolts that fit McDermott, Joss, Pechauer, Athena, Schmelke and probably a bunch more that I just haven't come across yet. Stack them in any combination you want, but make sure they are all tight so don't rattle. If you want them further back for balance, drop a piece of wooden dowel or a wad of cardboard to the bottom of the core and tighten it down with the first bolt. Matt has it right. This isn't rocket science by any means.

They could have probably gone with a coarser thread that is a little more available and cheaper, but at least they went with a standard metric size. Most new machinery in the US is now metric, so in the international fastener market over 90% is now metric, with SAE production going down year by year. A few places in China still produce SAE sizes, but it appears some of them went under during Covid, so curiously the SAE sizes are now showing up as more expensive than metric, which will just hasten their demise. The remaining manufacturers would probably be glad to not make these for a dwindling market and just tool everything for metric instead.
 
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The only thing you definitely need is that tool that tightens them down. Nothing else seems to fit. Friends have burrowed mine because their weight bolt came loose and they can’t seem to get it tight without it.
 
The ebay kit does not work well with the predator tool. I've bought the ebay pieces the holes are drilled funny. Go all predator or all ebay
 
The ebay ones worked grerat for me, I had the make a flathead cut across the provided tool so the small weights can be inserted and then tightened with a dime or screwdriver.
 
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