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Post by rambler on Sept 1, 2015 15:43:26 GMT -5
Does anyone have a way to determine at what pound of force a trigger is actuated using stuff around the home?
Thanks
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Post by rossman40 on Sept 1, 2015 16:25:03 GMT -5
You can fill a 2 liter pop bottle up with the appropriate amount of water and tie a string to it. All you need is a scale that will measure 2-5 lbs. If you want to wing it 1 cup (8oz) is roughly 8.3 to 8.5oz in weight (depending on hardness). You could start out at 2.5lbs and add lead sinkers or bullets till the trigger breaks and then weigh.
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Post by rambler on Sept 1, 2015 16:41:25 GMT -5
I was thinking of that also, I have a produce scale that measures in small increments. The dilemma I was thinking of is how to tie off the string to the trigger without the trigger guard interfering. I was imagining maybe a 16d nail taped crosswise and two strings coming off each end with like amount of weight attached???
Just brain storming here, and i'm coming up with a drizzle lol
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Post by 12ptdroptine on Sept 1, 2015 18:10:46 GMT -5
Just loop the string all the way through the trigger. Tie both ends together around a vontainer....add water until the trigger breaks and weigh it. You are sure this isnt loaded arent you? Drop
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Post by rambler on Sept 1, 2015 18:35:59 GMT -5
Just loop the string all the way through the trigger. Tie both ends together around a vontainer....add water until the trigger breaks and weigh it. You are sure this isnt loaded arent you? Drop Will it work in an unloaded gun? (JUST KIDDING, DO NOT TRY WITH GUN LOADED!!) I'm still concerned that with the string having to contend with the trigger guard, it may take more force to pull the trigger than is actually required: Below is a crude example of a possible method I've been thinking of. I used a flat carpenters pencil balanced across the trigger as an example. Then I thought by tying off strings on either end of the pencil with pre-measured weights, the strings being longer than the gun's length, and then simply raising up the gun until the weights pulled the trigger, increasing the weight until that happens. I'm open for any home made ideas.
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Post by cuda on Sept 2, 2015 20:02:54 GMT -5
Well 2 12oz bottles of any thing is 1.5 pounds so 3 12oz would be 2.25 pounds. And 4 12oz bottles would be 3 pounds and so on. You could bend a coat hanger to make a hook like on a boughten trigger scale. It should make most trigger setting jobs easier.
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Post by jims on Sept 2, 2015 21:36:45 GMT -5
I was trying to remember from high school but I thought a fluid ounce of water and an ounce of weight did not equate one to one exactly but close. Rossman's post indicated that above. Some good ideas/thoughts on how to do it. As I recall the fluid ounce is more volume and weight is more mass.
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Post by rossman40 on Sept 3, 2015 7:50:55 GMT -5
If you ever went to a NRA sanctioned match that had a trigger pull weight rule, they always used weights instead of a fancy guage. A NRA set-up looks something like this,
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Post by edge on Sept 3, 2015 8:09:07 GMT -5
I was trying to remember from high school but I thought a fluid ounce of water and an ounce of weight did not equate one to one exactly but close. Rossman's post indicated that above. Some good ideas/thoughts on how to do it. As I recall the fluid ounce is more volume and weight is more mass. Fluid ounces are a measure of volume so a fluid ounce of mercury would be much more than a fluid ounce of water. An avoirdupois ounce is a measure of mass so an ounce is an ounce on your scale. edge.
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Post by timgunner on Sept 22, 2015 10:09:37 GMT -5
I have used bailing wire and a coffee can filled with nails in the past. Make a long U shape of the wire (long enough to go from the trigger all the way under the but pad) punch two holes in the coffee can and loop the wire through the holes. This will create a loop that doesn't contact anything but the trigger. I set the but pad on the bench edge so that the coffee can doesn't touch and start filling the can with nails till it goes off. Then just weigh the can and wire.
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