Excellent tutorial! Even with CNC and AutoCAD you still have to do some manual calculations when setting up. Give that last problem to a machinist (CNC or manual) that doesn’t know trig and you get a blank stare. Keep up the old school training. Thank you.
I use gauge balls and rolls pretty often for inspection and different wire operations. Truely an invaluable tool. Just a bit of math and a trig chart can make you leagues above many "so called toolmakers".
Trained in stamping then switched to mold making before back to stamping. Always catching grief from my brother stampers about being a mold maker until it’s time to do math. LOL.
If you don't want to perform any trigonometry. Place a roller in the corner where the hexagon face meets the vise jaw. Indicate the roller center and zero the DRO. Repeat on the other side and half the distance on the DRO. This gives the center. Alternatively, if you have 2 rollers and no DRO, just sweep the indicator between them. To repeat on another part wedge a roller with the stop. The second problem can be solved by using a roller against the end stop on a sine bar.
Great stuff Phil, thanks for creating that chart.
As usual, fantastic. I look forward to these.
Excellent tutorial! Even with CNC and AutoCAD you still have to do some manual calculations when setting up. Give that last problem to a machinist (CNC or manual) that doesn’t know trig and you get a blank stare. Keep up the old school training. Thank you.
I use gauge balls and rolls pretty often for inspection and different wire operations. Truely an invaluable tool. Just a bit of math and a trig chart can make you leagues above many "so called toolmakers".
Trained in stamping then switched to mold making before back to stamping. Always catching grief from my brother stampers about being a mold maker until it’s time to do math. LOL.
If you don't want to perform any trigonometry. Place a roller in the corner where the hexagon face meets the vise jaw. Indicate the roller center and zero the DRO. Repeat on the other side and half the distance on the DRO. This gives the center. Alternatively, if you have 2 rollers and no DRO, just sweep the indicator between them. To repeat on another part wedge a roller with the stop.
The second problem can be solved by using a roller against the end stop on a sine bar.
My Carr Lane book is in the same drawer as my Machinery Handbook in my tool box