Hi. i have seen advertized several spindle tramming tools consisting of a vertical shaft and a cross piece with a dial indicator placed on each end of the cross piece. The tool is tee shaped. i saw a video of the tool being calibrated on a granite surface plate then attached to the spindle of the machine. The spindlle was then lowered until the dial indicators were touching the machines table. The indicators should read very close to the same. Adjusting the position of the head if they do not. Then rotating the tram tool 90 degrees and repeating the last steps.
My question is, if the chuck or collet holding the tram tool shaft is not holding it perfectly aligned with the machines spindle it would not give accurrite readings because the tram shaft would be at an angle to the machine spindle causing one indicator to be closer to the machine table than the other. it seems to me that if just one indicator was used and rotating the tram tool 180 degrees between readings would eliminate any error caused by chuck/collet missalignment. If there was a slight angle to the tram tool this would place the angle on the same side of the machine spindle as the indicator thus giving a true reading in relation to the true center of the machine spindle.
Am I correct or am I missing sometning here?
Lee
My question is, if the chuck or collet holding the tram tool shaft is not holding it perfectly aligned with the machines spindle it would not give accurrite readings because the tram shaft would be at an angle to the machine spindle causing one indicator to be closer to the machine table than the other. it seems to me that if just one indicator was used and rotating the tram tool 180 degrees between readings would eliminate any error caused by chuck/collet missalignment. If there was a slight angle to the tram tool this would place the angle on the same side of the machine spindle as the indicator thus giving a true reading in relation to the true center of the machine spindle.
Am I correct or am I missing sometning here?
Lee