Height Gauge

[Parm]

Bought this from Winchman, it was covered in rust and heavily caked in grease. It went into a citric acid bath as soon as it arrived and then attacked with a brass wire brush, followed by some very light sanding with 800 and 1200 wet and dry. The slide mechanism and fine adjustment screw were dismantled, cleaned and put back together.

There’s some surface pitting from the rust but both sides of the gauge are perfectly readable and the slide mech and fine adjustment screw work nice and smooth. It’s quite accurate

Made by Chesterman

Will be perfect for my amateur engineering

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Yours is posher than mine. Same maker though.

Any chance of some close ups of the scribe end. Mine was missing amd needs remaking.

 

[Parm]

Yours is posher than mine. Same maker though.

Any chance of some close ups of the scribe end. Mine was missing amd needs remaking.

Yep what do you need to see?

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

this bit.

 

[Parm]

View attachment 142197 this bit.
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[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Cheers. Nice and simple to make.
Will have to check where the scale indicates to.

 

[Rannsachair]

Nice bit of kit, looked mine out, its a Benson Verniers of Bradford:

 

[Gritineye]

Part, I bought a perfect one the same as yours for £20 boxed, thought I did quite well but still haven't got the hang of reading the flipping thing....

 

[WorkshopChris]

While we are talking height gauges anyone know anywhere that repairs old dials?
This works fine just the ink has faded over the years, and it getting harder to read. Slowing down the job of setting.

 

[Hood]

Could you not draw it up in CAD and print it out? I have done that lots of times for all sorts of gauges.

 

[WorkshopChris]

Could you not draw it up in CAD and print it out? I have done that lots of times for all sorts of gauges.

I was wondering about that, i dad also wonder about scanning and playing with contrasts and re printing. I imagine the bezel will pry off?

 

[ronan]

Or dismantle the gauge and redraw the lines with a fine ink pen ?

 

[winchman]

Excellent job, thats cleaned up really well.
Just glad you managed to save it

 

[winchman]

Yours is posher than mine. Same maker though.

Any chance of some close ups of the scribe end. Mine was missing amd needs remaking.

If you had asked me last week!
I had two more one the same one different.

 

[Parm]

Cheers. Nice and simple to make.
Will have to check where the scale indicates to.

I need a dog leg scribes for this one so I can read to zero on the scale

 

[graffian]

Mine came with the cranked sharpened carbide bit. I wasn't happy with the feel of it,
so I put a dial gauge on it, you don't need to have any feel to get it right every time.

What about a waterslide decal for the face of that mitutoyo?

 

[Screwdriver]

While we are talking height gauges anyone know anywhere that repairs old dials?
This works fine just the ink has faded over the years, and it getting harder to read. Slowing down the job of setting.
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Should be easy enough to pop that dial face out of there. Then just photocopy it and enhance with Photoshop etc.