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Originally Posted by Steve Huffman
Patrick,
Its a little early in the am but who are you calling idiots ?
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Why myself of course. I think I clearly volunteered to be the first "idiot" to sign up for MWT training at the Vegas show if offered. I do this knowing that if given a precision measuring device I will either break it, “uncalibrated it” or consistently get different results measuring the same subject multiple times. If others have this same aptitude with these types of tools and object to my classification of their skill set then I sincerely apologize.
I previously had a MWT gauge from Brownell’s and I followed the directions sent with the gauge and could not make the gauge work. I then turned to the internet for some "enhanced" instructions and found a variety of solutions to using the Brownell’s gauge. I settled on the following set of instructions to get the most accurate results;
1. Make sure you are facing due north so that you are magnetically aligned with the earth to decrease the variance of measurements.
2. Suspend barrels from a floor joist in your basement to decrease anomalies in measurements. Use a joist at least 6 feet from an external wall.
3. Make sure humidity in basement is less than 28.5%
4. Enlist two additional helpers to secure barrels for test
a. One helper to hold the barrels
b. One helper to hold the first helper in place
5. Measurer will lift right leg and point due north to also be magnetically aligned with barrels(ok, I made this one up)
6. Insert measuring device into barrels and drag along barrel wall remaining PRECISELY level to get the most accurate measurements.
When my wife came downstairs and found the barrels hanging from the joist and George holding the barrels and Bill holding George and me trying to work the PRECISION measuring device she just shook her head and said “why don’t you just measure the bore dumbass! ” So, I sold the Brownells gauge and have followed the experts advice every since.
Patrick