Torque Meter

From: calgoddard <calgoddard_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:55:06 -0000

I have a torque meter built to the 1980 Cezar Banks' design which has
been very useful for years. It took quite a bit of effort in a machine
shop to build the same. It allows you to easily release a very tightly
wound rubber motor without having to use O-rings.

A few years ago Lew Gitlow or someone else used to sell a very
inexpensive torque meter, that was not as good as the Cezar Banks
design, but still better than nothing. You really have to use O-rings
with this much simpler configuration. I know you can build one without
that much effort, but I would like some seventh graders to be able to
buy one and use it. The inexpensive one looks a lot like the Ray
Harlan design that you can find on the web. I think he just published
the plans, but doesn't sell them. I could be mistaken attributing the
design to Ray Harlan.

Does anyone else know if these are still available commercially? They
used 0.015" music wire, or a similar dimension to acccommodate winding,
for example, .093" rubber. They were basically a U-shaped braket with
a dial face, pointer and .015" music wire extending between the legs of
the bracket.
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