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Was planning to keep it intact, and just tape the thread to the top plate for measurement. But when I took it apart to disable the Mode button (so it will always stay set to grams), it looked so easy to repurpose...

 

Here's a link to the original 500g kitchen scale I bought. And a screenshot: 20250826_19h37m19s_grim.png

 

Drilled two holes in the upper right and reused the original screws to mount the load cell there.

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Added hot glue to keep the wires from being damaged from being tossed around

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Taped over the digits to the right of the decimal place so they don't distract.

Some other posts regarding measuring bobbin tension:

  1. gymnast uses a dynamometer
  2. RockyAussie measures with hammers
  3. Why measure? Because we like numbers 😃
  4. gymnast: how much bobbin tension?

 

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Here's what I use:

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