rake60
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Did you ever think just how sensitive your finger tips are?
You can feel .002 of an inch. Can you feel the edge of a piece of paper
laying flat on a table? Paper is .002" thick. Can you feel a single hair?
That is also .002"
Anyway on to the post.
Mr. Frank Ford has a quick and easy way of aligning a tail stock on
his web pages based on the plain old feel.
It's at Tailstock Alignment Trick
Now if you will be turning a 20" long bearing fit next, this procedure may
not get you close enough, but if you will be boring a 1" long cylinder bore
I'm willing to bet it WILL be.
Before this is shot down, I DO know the proper way of aligning a tail stock.
The fact is is doesn't have to be that critical for making the small scale
parts that most of us are turning.
Check out the Back to Machining Index at the bottom
of that page. He has some very good information on there!!!
Rick
You can feel .002 of an inch. Can you feel the edge of a piece of paper
laying flat on a table? Paper is .002" thick. Can you feel a single hair?
That is also .002"
Anyway on to the post.
Mr. Frank Ford has a quick and easy way of aligning a tail stock on
his web pages based on the plain old feel.
It's at Tailstock Alignment Trick
Now if you will be turning a 20" long bearing fit next, this procedure may
not get you close enough, but if you will be boring a 1" long cylinder bore
I'm willing to bet it WILL be.
Before this is shot down, I DO know the proper way of aligning a tail stock.
The fact is is doesn't have to be that critical for making the small scale
parts that most of us are turning.
Check out the Back to Machining Index at the bottom
of that page. He has some very good information on there!!!
Rick