Indeed it's not that critical, or at least if the tilting surface has a big
radius where the vernier is placed is more than enough to set the angle.
In the pictures you can see our hobber working and you can see the vernier
marked with red.
http://s2.postimg.org/670ern5qh/IMG_20150223_WA0002.jpg
and feed the hob once every revolution of the work.
That is geared as well it is a continuous function
For adjusting the twist, I was figuring on accurately placing two
drill bushings that would hold two dowel pins against which I would
place my sine bar, and just use a set of gage blocks to get
What I envision, after watching 'The Little Hobber' on youtube about 100 times.
Doing hobbing with a mechanical connection between the Hobbing arbor and the
work arbor is painful, all those gears, can guarantee that I won't have the set
I need. I found on Ebay, tool suppliers, in China, selling
