Violin Forum/Message Board

Mat Roop · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:05 am Post subject: thickness meter

Has anyone found a reliable & affordable digital alternate to the hacklinger guage?
Cheers, Mat

Andres Sender · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 2:21 pm Post subject:

Michael Molnar came up with something clever that works with your computer, a Hall effect sensor you can cobble together for about $130. Search for Digital Hacklinger at Maestronet.

Occasionally one hears of people building their own version of the magnet/spring design. You’ll find references to this over at MIMF--there are some current discussions as well as some info. in their archives.
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Mat Roop · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:31 pm Post subject:

Thanks Andres for the pointers... I have not yet searched on MIMF but have tried everything a dummy can do to search on Maestronet ... no luck. ... I think their search function is out of whack or I am!
I'll post my search problem over there and see what happens.
Cheers, Mat

SooT · Member Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 74 Location: Devon, UK

Glad I'm not the only one who has trouble searching on Maestronet. MD suggested typing this into google

subject site: maestronet.com (then the subject you are looking for)

Andres Sender · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 11:23 pm Post subject:

Yeah, the new board software now only works for half the types of searches I used to do, so I'm just using Google and that works fine with the above technique.

Hah, I see the upgrade has led to a temporary incompatibility between Google and Mnet. Wink

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