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This is a brilliant idea. Thank you! But, where were you a few days ago. LOL!Thanks for the video link. Maybe try using your 123 block between that faced boss on the carriage and the dial indicator tip to then pre set your indicators fixed position when you need more distance than the indicators 1" travel. That's a bit faster and easier than moving the indicator in steps to more than a 1" distance. Any lengths of micrometer setting rods you happen to have can also do the same. Ok it's a bit less accurate than a proper dro, but it's certainly within a couple of thou and good enough for most parts.
If you've already done this in CAD and it appears so, or unless you want to keep them private, then posting your drawings here could help anyone in the future to also make the same replacement parts for those 13" steady's.
True, but ballpark is all I really needed on this anyway. But that trick will come in handy for the next ops.Thanks, but that 123 block or micrometer setting rod idea sure isn't mine since most of it was borrowed from what the old school jig borers and grinders used before dro's were invented. It's just an expanded version of what your already doing. What we might be using is a whole lot less accurate than what they did since they were boring and grinding to repeatable coordinates and to less than 10ths accuracy. But it's still the same general idea.
That's a stretch. LOL!. Sometimes close enough is close enough. We'll see how it goes this week. Hoping for cooler temps. My shop is well insulated, but no climate control. So when it gets really hot in there, it stays hot. Opening the doors and windows just sucks in all the humidity.Looks to me like you have things under control
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