[TowerTalk] Phillystran Tension Gage

[John Simmons]

There is a method without using a gauge:
https://www.pbo.co.uk/gear/pbo-tested-4-rig-tension-gauges-45215

YMMV
-de John NI0K

KD7JYK DM09 wrote on 7/13/2021 2:27 PM:
>
>> After searching far and wide to come to the conclusion there is none
>> commercially available, I built my own tension gauge
>
> I'm super confused here.  I haven't looked for tension gauges since 
> putting up my own mast in 2013, and haven't looked again until a few 
> moments ago.  I got 22.71 million hits for sites, and enough pics to 
> choke the internet, with tension gauges ranging from small handheld 
> models for string, to gauges for suspension bridges, most in the range 
> of anything any of us would ever use, wire, rope, cable, you name it. 
> If price is a concern, and it's a one-shot deal, look at belt tension 
> gauges at an auto parts store.  Even the companies that supply bits 
> and pieces for our hobby, supply the tools, and gauges to install, 
> test, and use them (look up guy wire tension gauge, or cable tension 
> gauge, or even rigging gauges if you're into boating).  Perhaps, and I 
> don't know, does Phillystran require something more complex, and 
> specialized than any other material under tension that fits in the gauge?
>
> Kurt
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