[Farmall] Tachometer

[Robert L. Holtzer]

OK.  Thanks.

Bob Holtzer

At 04:44 PM 12/21/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>Unless your Harbor Freight is better stocked than ours, you will have to get
>it online. That's how I ordered mine. Didn't even see it in their catalog.
>
>Jeff D
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert L. Holtzer" <rholtzer at earthlink.net>
>To: "Farmall/IHC mailing list" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 12:14 AM
>Subject: Re: [Farmall] Tachometer
>
>
> > Thanks for the response.  Will take a look at the local Harbor Freight.
> >
> > Bob Holtzer
> >
> >
> > At 04:46 PM 12/20/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> > >I don't know if this is what you guys' are looking for or not. I bought a
> > >digital photo tachometer this summer from harbor freight. You put a piece
>of
> > >reflective tape on a rotating object and it reads the RPM off of that. It
> > >worked real well for checking the RPM's on our Case 500 diesel. It's not
>as
> > >robust as the one we use at work for checking shaft speed on our ships we
> > >build, but I compared  the harbor freight one to the better one and it
>read
> > >the same.
> > >     I paid $59.99 for it on sale but it still lists it at 69.99. The
>item #
> > >is 41727-1VGA. Hope this helps.
> > >
> > >Jeff D  N.E. Wis.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "E. John Puckett" <ejpuckett at centurytel.net>
> > >To: "Farmall/IHC mailing list" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > >Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 7:47 AM
> > >Subject: Re: [Farmall] Tachometer
> > >
> > >
> > > > I've been looking for something similar, but everything I've found ran
>in
> > >the
> > > > $75 to $150 range.  Does it give a reading of the number of times the
>prop
> > >blade
> > > > passes, or is their a scale that changes the counts to rpm.  might
>have to
> > >do a
> > > > little calculation to get rpm from a tractor engine.
> > > >
> > > > Robert L. Holtzer wrote:
> > > > >  From time to time there has been discussion of setting engine idle,
> > > > > etc.  Recently in a model airplane shop I saw a $25 tachometer that
>had
> > > > > an RPM range of 0 to 30,000.  It detected RPM from the propeller --
> > > > > apparently something akin to a strobe.  It would probably work off a
> > > > > painted mark on a crank pulley.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyone have any experience with this type of equipment?
> > > > >
> > > > > Bob Holtzer
> > > > >
> > > > >
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