ITW dial indicator 1/10,000 Dial

Look what I found!
Bought a bag of indicators and found this.
Rick, I do want to get this working which means pulling the needles.Dunno If I like that idea.If it doesn't pan out would you be interested?
I was thinking this was a E36 but a closer look reveals it may be E38.It's such a light strike on the chrome surface it's difficult to see.The '8' character does look symmetric.
HTH
Jay
P.S. How the bell did my image get rotated!!!?

Rick Berk said:

View attachment 59231 This is my first picture ever, hope it works.

Big red letter say ILLINOIS on the left face it has "Minus with an arrow, on the right is Plus with an arrow. at the center it has full jeweled 1/10000. at 6 oclock it has Illinois Tool Works Chicago. the scale is 0-100 on the right and 0-100 on the left. Thanks.

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I can imagine how attached you are to it. Would be great to have a large face and being able to read tenths too.
If you could find another indicator via wanted adds or find a collector asking to borrow or visit to take high def pictures maybe you could carefully sand down the face then have a reprint made and adhesive it on, reassemble then done.

my 2 cents
dd

I think your best bet would be to do a “follow this search” on eBay for a like replacement. You have an odd duck indicator and the talent to restore that dial is hard to find and costly. I send wrist watch dials all the time to S. Korea for restoration. That’s the only place that can do inspection with X10 eye loupe perfection! I do not know of any place/person that could help you with restoring a painted indicator dial, sorry. Again, I think searching on eBay is your best bet. Or, make your own dial. Save the original, start with a new disk, paint it, add the marks, do some letter/number transferring and then show us your handy work…Good Luck.

Edit: To remove that center hand. Put two opposing small screw driver blades under the hand at center and leverage up simultaneously. Lay paper on the dial if you do not want it marred. Do everything slowly so you can keep an eye on that hand and not lose it.

Theory:
Any dial indicator can be turned into a tenths indicator as long as the newly made graduations suit. Large dial face preferred
Correct?

...Upon further review,
It looks like a Starrett dial may fit.Prolly best to buy a new dial & swap them out.
On another note,the rear edge of my bezel shows a #, A7297.
I'm thinking this is a rebadged Starrett.
J

chips&more said:

...to remove that center hand. Put two opposing small screw driver blades under the hand at center and leverage up simultaneously. ....

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Do not do this. ^
You can damage bearings, displace gears, bend shafts.

Use a suitable puller. They are cheap enough to buy. They are even cheaper to make. And probably quicker to get than searching for 1 and then going to get it

12bolts said:

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Cheers Phil