Hi all
Decided to make a tailstock fitting to attach a digital tyre depth gauge to my tailstock, to get a better reading for depth drilling, a lot of members will have something similar no doubt. Used some ally from my scrapbinium box, some neodiminiminum...? .... 'earth' magnets & some epoxy resin. It gave me a chance to use my rotab' for the first time since I got it a year ago so it was a learning curve as well as making something from my 'toduit' list,
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The only addition to the digi gauge was to fabricate a small steel plate on the back of the gauge at the front end which had 4 small magnets epoxy glued on & 6 smaller stacked magnets at the rear end (2 stacks 3mm x 1mm) this was then just placed onto the tailstock. I glued a 6 x 1 magnet onto the back of the clamp which when attracted to a small magnet I'd fitted to the stem of the gauge sometime earlier gave an extra strong magnetic pull,
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Cheers
George
