Kody, Anybody who owns a scale and some ordinary shop scraps can build a digital torque meter in an hour. I devised the one you saw on HPA as a tool for calibrating my two tube/disc/wire ones. Somewhere in the middle of the process I realized that the calibration device itself was easier to use and far more accurate than the conventional types could ever be.
Mine were aluminum framed because that's what my shop scraps are, but they could just as easily be made with the aircraft ply that's in your shop, or Lexan/plexiglass/phenolic sheet. Whatever you have.
--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Kody P." <pipercub0749@...> wrote:
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> A torque meter is a must when it comes to consistency. I'm rather "green" to the free flight community, especially indoor duration, so I don't yet have a torque meter.
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> I have seen torque meters that use scales and others, such as Tim Goldstein's "Quick and Dirty Solderless Torque Meter", that are purely mechanical. I have one problem that would need to be answered differently for each type of setup:
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> How does one calibrate a torque meter?
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> Thank you,
> Kody
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Received on Sun Mar 06 2011 - 07:07:25 CET