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Gallery, Projects and General => Project Logs => Topic started by: websterz on October 02, 2009, 08:29:13 PM
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I recently added a large wooden bench to my shop and thought it would be a nice place to keep my "surface plate", a free granite countertop sink cutout I have had for a couple of years now. A height gauge would be nice to have too so I finally got round to making one. The base is from a dead gauge I bought on Ebay. Got it for a couple of bucks...just wanted it for the base. I pulled out an extra 8" digital caliper and started hacking off the unnecessary bits with my Dremel and made up a little extension out of a piece of 1/2" keystock for mounting the scriber. The scriber itself is actually one of the jaws I cut from an old dial caliper I had lying around that was well past any other useful purpose in life. I milled away a bit from the bottom for clearance and attached it with a couple 8-32 screws. It is pretty darn accurate as shown by one of my better 1-2-3 blocks:
(http://www.okiegauges.com/images/heightgauge/123.jpg)
A better view of the granite plate:
(http://www.okiegauges.com/images/heightgauge/granite.jpg)
And a closeup showing the scribe:
(http://www.okiegauges.com/images/heightgauge/scribe.jpg)
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websterz
Very neat. looks like it will do the job just fine and use up a couple of those bits you were saving for just such an occasion. Good job. :ddb: :ddb:
Cheers :beer:
Don
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Good job Weby :thumbup: Height gauges are a real handy bit of kit to have.
Have fun
Stew
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Very nice indeed, another 100 or so bucks saved.
Bogs
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Now that's what I would call a true Mad Modder project. Parts from varying sources modified for a useful tool. :thumbup:
Bernd