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<DIV>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
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Don Atwood</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 10/7/2005 10:00:32 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
ehaury@houston.rr.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Earl</FONT></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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