What are you going to use to run the indicator up and down the rod? If it is a reasonably well made height gage you should be fine.
N. Christopher Perry > On Aug 18, 2015, at 8:32 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings all; > > I am getting an artifact in my carving such that when the mating pieces > are turned around and the joints meshed, indicates the head may be > tilted a fraction of a degree. The indicator pointers location prevents > it from being viewed headon because you can't see thru the quill, so > some parallax error is possible. It is also possible the tool is > flexing as its currently moving at 50 IPM cutting about .225" deep per > pass, so the chips from an all climb cut are decent sized. And its a > used mill, having cut some alu in its history. It was a handy bit in > reach at the time. > > I do not have a dial holder that would hold a .0001" dial indicator in > the spindle for a rotational check to see if its dead perpendicular to > the table AND the table currently has the work holding jig/pallet > mounted and in the way of accessing the tabletop. Its just clamped, but > I think I'd glue a T-groove fitting stick to each end of it so it > becomes keyed to the table before I'd remove it. > > As a method to show grosser errors, I am thinking of chucking up an 8" > section of A2 rod, verifying any runout, and dialing the side of that as > I run it up & down the post. > > Would this be a suitable method of checking the alignment ("tramming") > between the post and the axis of a mounted tool? > > Thanks all. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
