Post June 24, 2023 1 min read

A printed mount for the gas bottle scale

Step three of my attempt to weigh the gas bottle: the load cell needed something solid to sit in. A load cell is the small metal bar that turns weight into an electrical signal.

So I designed and printed a holder for it. Without a proper mount, the bar bends in ways it should not, and the reading becomes useless.

Nothing spectacular to look at, but it is the part that decides whether the rest of the project works.

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