Let me start here by sayin' I'm a self taught "amateur" machinist. Those of you that do machinist work for a living have probably always done things like this and figured everyone did it this way. Not me.... I'm still learnin'...
So.... I was reading 2M's excellent thread about making an XS fuel gauge and this caught my eye....
A runout indicator (TIR) mounted on a quick change block. I doubt that most people even noticed it, but I had a holy crap moment.... All this time I've been dragging out my magnetic base TIR indicator and setting it up on the Atlas. It's not that big a deal but every time I need it for lathe work... I find it in the basement where I do my Lycoming engine work. And when I need it to check the crank on a Lycoming... I left the damn thing on the lathe in the garage.... absent minded and all that. So...
I scrounged around in one of the "boxes of stuff I rathole just in case...." and found this...
It's a runout gauge from a JT-8D fan disk fixture that fell into my pocket years ago...
A bit of angle and 10 gauge sheet and I have a mount...
A little paint and mounted in a quick change block....
Installed the indicator...
And voila... a quick change runout indicator for the Atlas.
It's a simple thing... but then I'm a pretty simple person....
Now all I gotta do is save up for a 4 jaw chuck and I'll be just as "eccentric" as Steve.
So.... I was reading 2M's excellent thread about making an XS fuel gauge and this caught my eye....
A runout indicator (TIR) mounted on a quick change block. I doubt that most people even noticed it, but I had a holy crap moment.... All this time I've been dragging out my magnetic base TIR indicator and setting it up on the Atlas. It's not that big a deal but every time I need it for lathe work... I find it in the basement where I do my Lycoming engine work. And when I need it to check the crank on a Lycoming... I left the damn thing on the lathe in the garage.... absent minded and all that. So...
I scrounged around in one of the "boxes of stuff I rathole just in case...." and found this...
It's a runout gauge from a JT-8D fan disk fixture that fell into my pocket years ago...
A bit of angle and 10 gauge sheet and I have a mount...
A little paint and mounted in a quick change block....
Installed the indicator...
And voila... a quick change runout indicator for the Atlas.
It's a simple thing... but then I'm a pretty simple person....
Now all I gotta do is save up for a 4 jaw chuck and I'll be just as "eccentric" as Steve.
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