Jerry thanks and completely understand. But then again a meter with 50% of its scale missing isn't all that useful either. Its all relative.
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:11 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a quick note... > > HP was quite proud that scales for their precision meters were individually > produced > for each movement on a custom made servo controlled photographic > calibrator. > > An archive might be nice but won't provide the meter accuracy of the > originals produced > for each unit. > > Jerry > > > Message: 2 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:29:19 -0400 > From: paul swed <[email protected] <lt%[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Meter face for HP-4805A > To: [email protected], Discussion of precise time and frequency > measurement <[email protected] <lt%[email protected]>> > Didier, Its subjective then. If its bad enough you take the risk because > you do know the process > will degrade the scale. Essentially when its time to do it you will. So > the good news is this. > With todays tools you can very accurately reproduce the meter scale. I scan > them at 1200 dpi as > I just did for the dymec. I prefer bitmap over jpeg for storing them. > Additionally with the > various paint programs that seem to come on every pc today you can always > fix issues pretty easily. > Then print to your favorite material which most likely is a white picture > material. (I like it > because its a bit thicker and more stable) Though good quality paper is > excellent also. > Hmmm maybe we should send our meter scans to K4BB repository. Heck he has > rom images. > Regards Paul. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
