http://igor.chudov.com/projects/Clau...-Axis-Readout/

If anyone wants to question why the reading head goes along the scale
and not at 90 degrees, the answer is that I already had the scale the
way it is. I wish that it had a more cross-slide-friendly orientation,
but alas, it did not. But it still works fine.

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