Incidence / Throw Meters

[AtwoodDon at aol.com]

I also just received my new Hangar 9 digital throw/incidence meters from  
Horizon and am somewhat disappointed.  I already had a digital level on my  
incidence meter so I was actually more interested in the digital throw meter  
function.  While it works, it does not have a counter balance to unload the  
surface as previously indicated/implied and it is very hard to reset the meter  to 
zero without moving the meter resulting in a non zero setting.  The  holder for 
the digital meter as a throw meter is relatively heavy; even tho it  has soft 
rubber pads on the clamping surfaces, it is fairly easy to change the  angle 
of the clamps because both sides of the clamping surfaces pivot as opposed  to 
one surface being fixed and the other pivoting as in the CRC throw  meter.  
We were able to measure throws to .1 degree as advertised but it  too some 
'futzing' to get there.  In less than 10 minutes, we came up with  several ways to 
make this setup better. Neat idea, wish they had taken more  time to actually 
think through how it really works and how modelers would use  it.  I already 
started making a new counter balanced surface mounting clamp  for mine and am 
looking for a longer bar for the incidence meter  part. It is woefully short 
for the wings we have if you want to measure  near the root. 
 
Like I said, neat idea, they should have spent more timing thinking or  
having some modelers test it first before release.  It would also be nice  if we 
could just buy the digital component and skip the rest.  As designed,  the CRC 
Throw Meter and Budd Engineering throw meter are much more user  friendly.
 
Don Atwood
 
In a message dated 10/7/2005 10:00:32 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
ehaury at houston.rr.com writes:

A while back I made reference to the (then yet  unreleased) Hangar 9 Angle 
Pro Digital Throw / Incidence meter as a possible  option for this task. Sorry 
to say that the two that I received are  disappointing - one was inoperative, 
the other worked well for a little while  and then failed. (The length of the 
"incidence bar" is too short unless you  wish to measure incidence near the 
wing tip also. ) Postings on RCU suggest  that my experience isn't an isolated 
case.
 
Earl



 
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