How to Calibrate a Crane Scale: Reproduce the Way it Hangs A crane scale spends its working life hanging from a hook with a load swinging underneath it. Calibrate it any other way and the certificate describes a scale that does not exist. That is the whole problem with crane scale calibration. The instrument is […]
How to Calibrate Aircraft and Truck Scales: The Tire is Part of the Measurement in Aircraft and Truck Scale Calibration Three different size adapters made by Morehouse on a 10 000 lbf PT300 scale. Will there be a difference in the measured values? We loaded the same truck scale to 20 000 lbf (89.0 kN) […]
How to Calibrate Tension Links and Load Shackles: It is all About the Pin When it Comes to Tension Link Calibration A tension link is calibrated on its pins, not on its label. Two links stamped with nominally the same capacity can behave completely differently under load because they were built around different pins, and […]
