hey guys it's Randy Richard this is a for all one of the viewers Paul Jones he
was wondering about my dial indicator holder so I took it apart I made it as
built drawing of it since I couldn't find the original and now I was going to
show all the parts individually and then put together real quick this is the bar
that holds the pivoting rod see if I can find the camera huh the bar that holds
the indicator
the mounting bar that's a piece of quarter-inch stainless the pivoting rod
this is actually two pieces lightly pressed together there is a slight about
half a thousandths press fit so I can adjust where it was in the middle and
stuff these are both paid out of stainless these are two pieces it's a
little little roll pin there that's just a positioning pin to help it so it won't
rotate 1032 set screw or socket head cap screw and the end there it helps keep it
all square that pin just always the 8:32 socket head goes in there and that's
just to pinch the dial indicator this is a mountings rod I also made another one
that's 5/16 for different holders and this is a quarter inch wand this one
goes in my Noga real nice
then I mean these are 1032 pointed I made little pointed set screws and these
I might have to adjust a little bit but they were pretty good actually
one on each side and that forms your pivot
those in the air catches and notes those holes I drilled I don't see how I take
out those holes I drilled I drilled a little center drill so they're really a
60-degree hole tapered hole and then I cut a 60-degree point of course on this
on the set screws
it's probably better ways to do it that
this is how I did it and works good for me you can get these
set so it's nice and free I put a little lock tight on those actually so there's
a little bit of friction with them such but there's basically no play at all so
I decide or up and down it's very indicating you know a not ID
now this is not to measure necessarily you could but it is not I did not make
it to measure an exact dimension or offset for a piece in the lathe or the
mill I made it just to measure the difference so for setup in them in the
lathe really so to put on the ID now starett makes a unit that you could just
pop your indicator into well you know I made this all out of scrap it basically
cost me zero and it came out really nice the bluing job I did on real real happy
with it came out just perfect I really like the blue look of tools and the blue
and the stainless really came out pretty nice together
I've used this quite a few times already and it works just just perfect I just
throw an indicator in there actually I have one in there all the time throw an
indicator in there and suddenly and away you go
so there you go Paul and I emailed the drawings to you if there's anyone else
who cares for the drawings I made him awful quick here this morning I emailed
him and it's a no AutoCAD format so he can access it and get all the dimensions
he wants off of it I didn't show all the dimensions if
there's enough interest I'll print a print out or not print out but I will
form PDFs and I will be happy to email them I'm not going to be mailing stuff
but I will do email I don't mind that so anyway that's it that's the indicator
holder thanks for the interest there Paul if there's any improvements Paul if
you come up with something let me know especially on that pivot thing yeah that
sketch screw thing works really well but I don't know I I wouldn't mind having a
different kind of setup but if if you came up with something to be interesting
alright thanks guys thanks for watching
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