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    I had a '69 Ghia when I was in college. I worked part time at a repair shop where one of the mechanics was a VW specialist. Somehow on a...
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    I saw the head & meant to chat you up at the meetup but got side tracked (as usual). Seeing the wing tip ends easily encompassed in the...
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    PeterT replied to the thread Tool Coaxial indicator.
    1) a centering tip is included in the kit 2) but to indicate, the driveshaft has to be rotating & the body held in position with the...
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    PeterT replied to the thread Tool Coaxial indicator.
    Agreed. For this kind kind of conventional runout measurement I would set up a DTI on an arm & it does not matter where its mounted. I...
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    PeterT replied to the thread Tool Coaxial indicator.
    I don't have my clone anymore to test, but I would evaluate if it is being affected unequally by gravity acting on the probe/mechanism...
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    PeterT replied to the thread JCDammeyer's 42 projects.
    Where does one go to get that done? (Interesting gift idea).
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    Exactly. One would think taking a Snagit snapshot of his image should bear zero relationship to the original troublemaker image. And yet...
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    PeterT replied to the thread Tool Coaxial indicator.
    What I do quite often is take advantage of DRO. Put the DTI in with ball probe pointing down. Traverse to one size of hole to DTI...
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    Same here. Isn't that weird. Even by screen grabbing the original problem image in Snagit, which saves as .jpg & uploading as...
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    Test. After I opened the image in another tab, I did a screen grab of (most of), saved it & uploaded as attachment here. Can you open up...
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    PeterT replied to the thread Tool Coaxial indicator.
    The Chinese knockoffs (of Blake) are generally not that well made. They take up a lot of vertical real estate due to their body length &...
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    using this link as example https://canadianhobbymetalworkers.com/threads/another-problem-filled-project.16082/#post-206522 If I click...
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    PeterT replied to the thread 4027 Aluminum.
    From Gemini AMS4027 is an aluminum alloy, specifically a specification for 6061 aluminum sheet and plate, with a solution and...
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    PeterT replied to the thread Manual use of CNC machine.
    That's pretty darn cool. Lets say you definitely did not want CNC but wanted your dial setup (more as a retrofit to a manual machine)...
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    I don't do CAM so I can't speak for how valuable 'integrated' is like F360. I always assumed one chooses CAD package for CAD specific...
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