Or you can buy mine that comes accurate to less than .02 in-oz. at a 1 in-oz. reading.
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art <aholt11552_at_bellsouth.net> wrote:
>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.
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>--- 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 - 08:21:32 CET