At 22:52 19 December 2010, wrote:
We at the Fault Line Flyers Glider Club in Briggs Texas want to build
or buy a tension meter for our auto tow operation.

Does anyone have experience that might be helpful.

I have no direct experience (though I'm currently designing a load cell
setup for a winch), but a 2000 lb capacity S-type load cell like this
one:

http://www.icscale.com/td112.htm

In combination with an indicator like this:

http://www.icscale.com/XK315Aind.html

Should do the job.

Marc