I would imagine he just zeroes it to the table and then locks it in place,
moves it over the bit and raise the bit so it just touches the plunger on
the dial indicator.

"Alan W" wrote in message
m...

I've got the same setup and agree completely. I use a dial indicator
to zero out the bits, then I can set the height very accurately just
by counting cranks and watching the thou indicators.


How do you set up your dial indicator tell when the bit is at zero?
Are you above the bit looking down and have it mounted to fence of
something so you have a relative to the table reading?

Alan