Originally Posted by
FBinNY
What do you mean "works well enough" there's no more accurate way to calibrate a tension meter than with a dead weight on the end of a spoke. It's a precisely known tension, with built in compensation for the stiffness of the spokes to be measured.
The only thing you could do to make it better, is to use 2 weights on either side of the target tension range, ie. 100kg and 125kg.
NASA would use a proprietary $100,000 machine that pulled the thing horizontally
under variable gravitation values and needed monthly maintenance and recalibration
contracts to be put out for bid themselves. I was just apologizing for the directness
and simplicity of the method......given the nature of the original topic.
