-MIKE- wrote:
Ed Bennett wrote:

Honestly, I can't understand why people go to such extremes to avoid
dial indicators.

Honestly Ed, I'm not trying to be a dick, but yours is really not much
more than a dial indicator on a stick, certainly not $100 more than a
stick. :-)

Dial indicators on a stick aren't all bad. I suggest something like

http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?PMAKA=SW625-1300

(on sale for $19.95, click on the "Master Catalog Page" link for a photo
of the whole thing.

Unscrew the vertical support from the base, lower the cross-arm, and
chuck it up in your (unplugged) drill press. Then raise the table until
the indicator touches the table.

Turn the chuck by hand and adjust until you get the same reading all the
way around.

Use the base as a refrigerator magnet. Send me the point set.

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/