Kram
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I just studied and practised how Abom on Youtube does it and that works for me. I get very consistent readings that way, so I must be doing something right. No micrometer stand necessary.What do you use? Would make it much easier measuring bores with telescope gauges if I had a stand to hold micrometer. I am thinking one that can be mounted on side of my tool cabinet.
Seen some on amazon but they need bench space, which I dont have.
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How does he do it? I wasnt planning to watch all of his videos to find out... Probably the same way I do it already.I just studied and practised how Abom on Youtube does it and that works for me. I get very consistent readings that way, so I must be doing something right. No micrometer stand necessary.
How does he do it? I wasnt planning to watch all of his videos to find out... Probably the same way I do it already.
Fair enough, I have my own way quite different. When taking the measure I will slide the gauge so its moving freely and tilt it to the extreme and tighten, thereby making the measure oversize. My reasoning is by default its very easy to get an undersized measure particually as the springs in my set seem to be very weak. Then I will wiggle it into the bore and tilt the handle down until its on centre (using lathe tool as reference)., Wiggle a bit more and withdraw it.
The pattern M&W micrometer stands aren't bad for the money.Fair enough, I have my own way quite different. When taking the measure I will slide the gauge so its moving freely and tilt it to the extreme and tighten, thereby making the measure oversize. My reasoning is by default its very easy to get an undersized measure particually as the springs in my set seem to be very weak. Then I will wiggle it into the bore and tilt the handle down until its on centre (using lathe tool as reference)., Wiggle a bit more and withdraw it.
I hold the mic and telescope in my left hand and carefully use the ratchet with my right.
Anyway accuracy is not my problem its just a bit of a pain to keep picking up micrometer when using it often, thats partly as I dont have much space to put it down so it gets buried in other tools.
I much prefer the wedge ball gauge set for small sizes but they only seem to do them upto 13mm. I was going to make a 20 and 30mm version sometime.