GarytheDino Posted October 2, 2004 Share Posted October 2, 2004 Just for the fun of it I pushed my grippers against the scale to see how much it took to close them. I pushed them all at the same angle on the bottom corner of the handle and checked them several times. I rounded to the nearest five because my method is not that scientific, and it varied a pound or two each way. My handle speads range from 2.6 to 2.9 inches, trainer is 2.9, hg200 is 2.6 most others are 2.7. Store gripper 30 .................handle flat on scale 35 Trainer 60 .............handle flat on scale 70 (we can assume a 15%increase for the others which are too difficult to hold on the scale that way.) Filed #1 70 unfiled probably 65 Hg200 70 #2 80 Old filed #2 85 (closed to approximate where the handle would have touched. It's filed to far and your hand gets pinched between the handles before it touches.) Hg250 long handle in fingers 85 short handle in fingers 90 #3 100 Hg300 110 #3 125 The HG 200 250 300 70 90 110 seem to progress evenly at about 1/3 listed strength IM grippers T 1 2 3 60 65 80-85 100-125 big range on #3 about 40% of listed strength on all except trainer. Has anyone else tried this? If so what numbers did you get, just curious with to much time on my hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyboy Posted October 2, 2004 Share Posted October 2, 2004 mooinabc1 was the first person to tell me about this. he got some pretty acurate results too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darco Posted October 2, 2004 Share Posted October 2, 2004 Try pressing them flat against the scale while slightly stabalizing the spring that way the numbers are interchangeable with othe peoples ratings. There have been a few threads about this method so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarytheDino Posted October 2, 2004 Author Share Posted October 2, 2004 I remember reading about this but can't find the threads. I laid the easier grippers flat and got about 15% higher numbers. Maybe we could compare "hard and easy" grippers to get some idea what we have. I expect the average #3 to be around 115 plus 15% if laid flat on the scale. Wish I could find those threads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarudriller Posted October 2, 2004 Share Posted October 2, 2004 Wish I could find those threads. Here's one of them: http://www.gripboard.com/index.php?showtopic=10298&hl=scale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarudriller Posted October 2, 2004 Share Posted October 2, 2004 There's also a post in this thread: http://www.gripboard.com/index.php?showtopic=9649&hl= Search the word "scale" and dig around in the threads. I'll let you do the rest of the leg work. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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