George,

While I would love to take credit, I didn't invent the dial indicator
so I can't exactly call it my "toy". I will take credit for the
TS-Aligner products, but they are just fancy fixturing for dial
indicators.

Perhaps I can help you understand what makes alignments with a dial
indicator so much easier than traditional "feel the rub" or "hear the
scrape" methods. To answer your question precisely: you "hit" the
turnnion enough to change the reading on the dial indicator so that the
0.003" error is eliminated. That's one of the great things about using
a dial indicator, you can leave it on the object that your are
adjusting and watch the progress of your adjustmentments in real time
so that you know exactly what to do and how much to do it. There's no
subjective guess work.

Or, perhaps this will not help you to understand...Maybe if you sprung
for the $8.50 and just goofed around with one for a while you might
eventually get the idea. They don't bite and aren't so hard to use
that your ego would be in danger of getting bruised. You might
actually learn something new in the process.

Thanks,
Ed Bennett


http://www.ts-aligner.com
Home of the TS-Aligner!

George wrote:
If ever there was a case of measure with a micrometer and cut with a
meat
axe, it's Ed's toy. "It's .003 off to the left, so how many times do
I need
to hit the rear trunnion bolt with this mallet for .003?"