I guess that depends on your flight box. I store the one shown in
mine as the beam lifts off easily. With a little creativity you could
also make a protective case for it to let you put it on the bottom
layer in a tackle box.
Thayer
>The problem with a scale like that is that it's not very portable. A
>scale is absolutely essential at contests for weighing motors.
>
>
>On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Thayer Syme
><<mailto:thayer_at_gryffinaero.com>thayer_at_gryffinaero.com> wrote:
>
> >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>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 - 17:42:57 CET