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not sure if this is worth a thread on its own, but it's going to take long enough so hopefully this will keep me on it
One of my digital tire depth gauges that I use for a "DRO" on my lathe went on the fritz, due to either some weird magnetic problem or the cold or something. It's always been a bit of a pain as it's travel is less than the carriage, so I dug up an old digital caliper with an odd -0.15mm error (always reads 0.15mm low from zero, but returns to zero) and begun cutting it up. No pics of the caliper, although I managed to drill through it fine with a HSS drill, which was a surprise.
Here's the band saw cut blank of the read head mount. I started squaring it off to size, but no pics of that yet.
the long thin bit on the right will bolt just under the carriage leadscrew (it's an odd jeweller type lathe where the whole kit'n'kaboodle is moved up and down the ways and bolted down), the fat bit on the left will hold the read head.
Not sure how much I'll get done this week as I have 2 lectures and an exam to prepare, but after that things should be a bit easier!
One of my digital tire depth gauges that I use for a "DRO" on my lathe went on the fritz, due to either some weird magnetic problem or the cold or something. It's always been a bit of a pain as it's travel is less than the carriage, so I dug up an old digital caliper with an odd -0.15mm error (always reads 0.15mm low from zero, but returns to zero) and begun cutting it up. No pics of the caliper, although I managed to drill through it fine with a HSS drill, which was a surprise.
Here's the band saw cut blank of the read head mount. I started squaring it off to size, but no pics of that yet.
the long thin bit on the right will bolt just under the carriage leadscrew (it's an odd jeweller type lathe where the whole kit'n'kaboodle is moved up and down the ways and bolted down), the fat bit on the left will hold the read head.
Not sure how much I'll get done this week as I have 2 lectures and an exam to prepare, but after that things should be a bit easier!