Subject: Re: Dial indicator accessory question...

From: [email-masked] (Chris Kantarjiev)
Date: 3 Aug 1996 01:30:13 GMT

>Is there anyplace I can look for proper usage of a dial indicator?  I've
>figured out how to use it to set and test all the woodworking tools I 
>intended to use it with, but I'll just bet there are other things I can 
>do with it that I haven't yet thought of...

Moltrecht's "Machine Shop Practice" is a two-volume reference that is
filled with lots of basics like this for measurement and using
various machines.

I also find that getting a Starrett catalog is quite enlightening. You
have to read between the lines a bit, but there is a gold mine of 
info there in the descriptions of the various devices.

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From: [email-masked] (Russ Kepler)
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 00:09:38 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Al Amaral - SunSoft Engineering <[email-masked]> wrote:
>It's an X shaped object, a post, with a second whatsit going through it.
>The whatsit has a ball on either end of two long cones, and can wobble to and
>fro on the dohicky...

It sounds like a "hole attachment" and usually comes with a dial test
indicator that has movement only in-and-out of the indicator body.
You mount it so that one end of the pivioting arm touches the
indicator stem and the other end presses against the work so that
movement of the work against the arm move the indicator stem.

>do with it that I haven't yet thought of...

Not that I'm aware of - nothing even in beginning machining texts I
have.  I suspect that it's supposed to be obvious, but it never is
for me.

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Russ Kepler, at home	[email-masked]

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