Wind indicators

bigHUN

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OK, I am ready to show my project finally.

In last couple weeks I made several size and shapes, and so far this is a combination what I like the most.
The red painted fin is 31 gram and the black corrugated plastic is 11 gram, all the other parts identical weight.
The lighter (black for now) fin moves very active to slightest air changes, I think I like the heavier painted more.
On the floor there is a dual fin, way too heavy, I have no weight for it for now to counter-balance, but seem to me the most accurate. After many years left them, looks like I will need to visit a fishing store again :)

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Also below, the left meter (the blue, still in the original box) is up for trade.
I got that blue first, but that unit need a compass in the phone. But at my BR shooting range I am not using a phone screen, I am using my Samsung tablet (for radar and Strelok) and this tablet doesn't have an internal compass.
I had to order again, the brown brown meter (right side) which has an integrated magneto-meter.

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At my gun club, the range #5 is a 22LR silhouettes 20-100 meters where I am spending most of my time, but the lower picture is again a very interesting range #3. We have some sort of long sheds built at every shooting position, with a single door that is just a frame and no door either beside me or from the side. That your wind catcher would go just psychky on my barrel :) with an air blowing into my ears somewhere from a back .

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When the wind enters these canyons and start swirling.... a a BIG guy to help you hitting the x.

Today already late to drag my setup to the range, tomorrow I will be testing if any value looking further.

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OK, I am ready to show my project finally.

In last couple weeks I made several size and shapes, and so far this is a combination what I like the most.
The red painted fin is 31 gram and the black corrugated plastic is 11 gram, all the other parts identical weight.
The lighter (black for now) fin moves very active to slightest air changes, I think I like the heavier painted more.
On the floor there is a dual fin, way too heavy, I have no weight for it for now to counter-balance, but seem to me the most accurate. After many years left them, looks like I will need to visit a fishing store again :)

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Also below, the left meter (the blue, still in the original box) is up for trade.
I got that blue first, but that unit need a compass in the phone. But at my BR shooting range I am not using a phone screen, I am using my Samsung tablet (for radar and Strelok) and this tablet doesn't have an internal compass.
I had to order again, the brown brown meter (right side) which has an integrated magneto-meter.

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For a counter balance go to a hardware store with assortment and they should have one with adjustable collars that accept different shaft sizes.
 
I 3d printed the bearing post (16mm ceramic bearing inside) and the outer cap that sits on top of the tripod tube. The hole through can take some different OD (arrow) shafts. The counterweight is a fillable christmass ornament and filled with #9 leadshots.
I have piled up so much s***t from all of my hobbies and now I just need to improvise based on parts I can salvage from garage corners :)
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