After a long Christmas & New Years, hiatus I started working on my shop benches again this week. On Sunday night everything was going well and I designed and built the alignment jig in about an hour. Monday night didn’t go as well. Part way through welding the first leg unit I ran out of wire. A quick look at the clock (11pm), and I knew I wasn’t getting any wire until the next day. Continue Reading…
Last week, I Used some gift cards I got for Christmas to pick up a Delmhorst J-Lite moisture meter. It’s a lower end model that requires you to manually correct the readings for temperature and species. Unfortunately the charts provided by Delmhorst are a little course.
Fortunately the data contained in the charts is fairly well behaved, and thus easily curve fitted. After an hour or two of data entry and curve fitting I cam up with an excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet takes the following 3 Inputs.
The spreadsheet takes the inputs, and does some vlookups to determine what the corrected moisture content is. The spreadsheet can be downloaded here.