[INCH-POUND]
A-A-52045
January 7, 1992
COMMERCIAL ITEM DESCRIPTION
TENSION HANDLE, STEEL MEASURING TAPE,
SURVEYOR’S
The General Services Administration has authorized the use of this commercial item description in preference to Military Specification MIL-T-11752B.
This description covers a spring- scale tension handle for use with a surveyor’s measuring tape.
Salient characteristics:
Design: The tension handle shall be as specified herein. The surveyor’s steel measuring tape tension handle shall consist of a spring-scale body with a jump ring and snap hook, for attachment to a surveyor’s steel measuring tape at one end, a jump ring and tape pull at the other end of the body, and a leather carrying thong. A typical tension handle is shown in figure 1.
Spring-scale body. The spring-scale body shall be graduated for a length of not less than 2 inches in 0.50 pound increments from 0 to 30 pounds.
Accuracy. The spring and pointer assembly shall indicate the applied load to within 0.50 pound in the range between 10 to 30 pounds at +75 °F (24 °C) and to within 1 pound at -25 °F (-32 °C) and at +125 °F (52 °C).
Tape pull. The tape pull shall be readily detachable.
Snap hook. The snap hook shall be of the swivel type and suitable for fastening to the end loop of a surveyor’s steel tape.
Leather carrying thong. The leather carrying thong shall be not less than 36 inches long, 0.250-inch wide, and 0.117-inch thick, and shall contain between 0.20 and 0.50 percent paranitrophenol to render the thong fungus resistant.
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