Is there a wheelbuilding thread yet?

tension relative to each other is fine also, as long as you’re in the ballpark at least and not 70 or 150kgf for example.

This is when froggy and I did it on a calibrated tensile tester:

You could get a load cell and make up a frame, or get a digital scale and do the same thing cheaper
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Or you could make an even simpler hanging jig and anchor it to a joist and put a known ~100kg on the other end

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