Incidence / Throw Meters

[Chad Northeast]

I happen to think its great, I understand what Don is saying with the 
system but its nothing that makes the system unusable by a long shot IMO.

Besides there are a lot more uses for it as well, it makes a pretty 
slick level for many projects.

I have the Budd as well, but I think I will rely more on the accu-level.

Chad

Dave Smith wrote:

>  I believe a 36" bar is available,but that won't help much if the rest 
> is not good.
>  
> Dave
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* AtwoodDon at aol.com <mailto:AtwoodDon at aol.com>
>     *To:* ehaury at houston.rr.com <mailto:ehaury at houston.rr.com> ;
>     discussion at nsrca.org <mailto:discussion at nsrca.org>
>     *Sent:* Friday, October 07, 2005 8:45 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: Incidence / Throw Meters
>
>     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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