Originally Posted by
FBinNY
Now, you're just reaching. Yes, we use measuring tools.
The debate boils down to your belief that it's necessary to use a tension meter to verify uniform relative tension in a wheel, and those of us, who believe it isn't. You're free to believe what you wish, and to work accordingly, and you're certainly free to pass up dealing with those of us who don't use a tension meter this way.
Yep. On purpose. It's a conversation. Ideas being worked out between people. Reaching is allowed.
And I think the debate has moved on. You have convinced me you don't need the meter. Neither sixty fiver. Well and good. Now I would like to convince you some (actually most) people always will need a meter to do as well as you and to know they have done it. Your skill is IMO rare. At least at the level of top notch wheels. Nobody I know has that ability, least of all me. Whether it is due to lack of inherent talent or just never having a reason to build enough wheels to develop the skill, makes no difference. For the normal person thirty pair or so in a lifetime just won't do it. For those without the skill the meter is the leveler, what allows me to build wheels as well as you. That is saying something, right?