>My AWS Gemini also quit working. I never liked it anyway. The one I
>use looks like the AWS but it just says Mini Digital Scale on the
>cover.
While it doesn't have digital convenience, a hand made balance beam
can be surprisingly accurate.
Back when I was making spoked wheels for sale, I sent a pair to a
customer and told him I thought they weighed .237 grams. He worked
in a lab with scales calibrated to 6 decimal places and reported that
he weighed them at .2366-something. I remember thinking that if I was
off by only 0.0004 that was plenty close enough for what I was doing.
Indeed, that difference could easily have been attributable to
humidity changes.
This is the balance in question. I have since made another using
magnetic damping that is easier to use.
http://www.gryffinaero.com/models/ffpages/tools/scales/balance.html
One benefit is that the battery will never fail.
Thayer
Received on Thu Jan 23 2014 - 16:56:17 CET