On Tue, Aug 18, 2015, at 01:15 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 08/18/2015 11:34 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > And that indicator mount is obviously NOT the spindle. URL for such a > > gizmo? Or did you make it, since that generally IS what we do. ;-)
First you need an indicator clamp that will attach your indicator to a round bar. Something like this: http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?PARTPG=INLMKD&PMPXNO=5802322&PMAKA=325-1367 They are available with a wide range of hole sizes. You want one with one hole that fits your indicator and another hole that fits a piece of rod from your junk box. I'm hoping you already have one or two of these clamps - to be honest an indicator isn't much good without a way to clamp it to things. Most of the cheap "mag-base plus indicator" kits include such a clamp. In fact, in many cases you could just unscrew the vertical bar from the mag-base and stick that bar in a collet, and you'd be done. > A rod that fits in a collet, cross-drilled for another rod > at a right angle, would be a good start. Or you could use another of those clamps mentioned above to attach the two rods together. Or you could just clamp one end of the rod in the vise and bend the other end roughly 90 degrees. One rod goes in collet in spindle, vertical. Either the other end is bent to roughly horizontal, or a second rod is clamped to the first one and is roughly horizontal. The indicator is clamped to the second rod at the desired radius with the plunger vertical. -- John Kasunich [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
