On 02/01/2011 10:53 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 1 February 2011 15:22, gene heskett<ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > >> How are you 'marking' the high spots now? And how much error now remains? >> > Too late now, but this would have been my process (based on > refurbishing the slideways of an Ormerod Shaper, which I helped my dad > do 25 years or so ago). > > 1) Mount a dial indicator on the carriage. > 2) Depending on the size of your surface plate, file spots every few > inches at a spacing such that the surface plate bridges at least 3 of > them to the exact same reading on the dial indicator. > 3) Using a combination of engineers' blue, the surface plate, files, > sanding blocks (and in the case of the shaper, an angle grinder) work > down the rest of the surface to touch all the filed spots. > 4) Pretty it up a bit. That's kinda the way I'm doing it. instead of engineers blue, I'm using a big black sharpie... ;-) And, if you look closely, you can see the depth gauge mounted on the cutting head.
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