Upright Hammer Weight/ Newton

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Sat, 17 Nov 2001 19:16:26 +0100


Farrell wrote:

> With a grand at least you have consistent downward pull to balance a key to
> (excluding friction variations) when doing a traditional key weigh-off. How
> in the world does a factory do it on an upright? Do they just bend the butt
> springs to some pre-determined angle, stick it all together, and then get
> their weight sets out?
>
> Interesting.
>
> Terry Farrell
>

Yes... what you describe is interesting... I have an upright action hammer
change comming up... might be fun to do a little dinking around in this
direction.

Keep us informed on how this works out Terry.



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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
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