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Old 09-18-22, 01:15 PM
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Aardwolf
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Originally Posted by fishboat
I don't have much faith in the Parks TM-1, or that design of a tension meter in general.

Rather than repeating some previous thoughts/work:

https://www.bikeforums.net/bicycle-m...on-meters.html
Me too, I've got a knock off tension meter (Ztto TC-1).
I set up a very similar arrangement to check its calibration.
Then I fitted an exponential curve to convert the reading to actual tension KgF

A thing I noticed is to bounce the tension meter against the spokes until the reading settles down.
Friction in the mechanism means it can go down about 0.5 or more.

Used it to relace some Mavic Monthlery Route and MA2 with max 90KgF.
Now about 1k miles later and no issues.
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