Quote Originally Posted by d_adams View Post
Tighten it to the point that you think it's too tight and then go a little more. If you have a cheap fish scale (spring scale for checking weight) you want about 3/4" total movement with 30 lbs of pull force on it. I know that sounds absurdly tight but it's not. If there were more than 1100 EBR's out there, I'd go ahead with one of my tensioner checking tool ideas I had a few years ago that would be totally fool-proof, but, since there isn't, I won't do it.
Great advice! I'll go pull my scale out of the tackle box.