Hi All: I was given a tool recently and as far as I can tell it is
called a center finder made in US by Mituyoyo.At least it says it's
made in the US but I can't imagine it would be with that brand name.
I found one on ebay exactly like the one I have.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...spagename=WDVW

I can't for the life of me figure out how this tool would be used or
where I can get any info on it. Is it used on a lathe? Any info on
this is greatly appreciated.

M

It is used in a height gage for measuring hole distances:
from: http://www.mitutoyo.com/catalog/pdf/P-17.pdf
.. Allows quick measurement of center-to-center distance between holes.
.. Measurable hole diameters: .04"-1.49"


"msterspy" wrote in message
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Hi All: I was given a tool recently and as far as I can tell it is
called a center finder made in US by Mituyoyo.At least it says it's
made in the US but I can't imagine it would be with that brand name.
I found one on ebay exactly like the one I have.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...spagename=WDVW

I can't for the life of me figure out how this tool would be used or
where I can get any info on it. Is it used on a lathe? Any info on
this is greatly appreciated.

M

"msterspy" wrote in message
...
Hi All: I was given a tool recently and as far as I can tell it is
called a center finder made in US by Mituyoyo.At least it says it's
made in the US but I can't imagine it would be with that brand name.

Oh, yeah, Mitutoyo has had several US manufacturing operations. The #2
building in Aurora was originally built as a manufacturing facility for
their CMMs.

They also had a very nice and advanced dial-indicator plant in another
suburban Chicago town, back in the mid-'80s. They made almost all of their
worldwide production of dial indicators there. The reason it was in the US
is that the only places in the world where they could sell enough
old-fashioned, clockwork dial indicators to make manufacturing them
worthwhile was the US...and Mexico, and a few African countries we've never
heard of. g The rest of the world was buying digital only by then.

--
Ed Huntress

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:49:24 -0800, "Lane" lane (no spam) at
copperaccents dot com wrote:

It is used in a height gage for measuring hole distances:
from: http://www.mitutoyo.com/catalog/pdf/P-17.pdf
. Allows quick measurement of center-to-center distance between holes.
. Measurable hole diameters: .04"-1.49"

More accurately, used to find one dimension of the location, in
practice, might be somewhere within .005" at best. I have one, prefer
using gage pins and indicator, far more accurate and less bother.

Greybeard.

Thanks for your help. Not sure if I have any use for this. Seems to me
I would need a mounting device to use this. I suppose I could mount it
to the tool rest on my Taig. As you can probably guess, I'm pretty
much starting out learning about machine tools.I took a Machine
processing course at Wentworth in Boston about 40 yars ago and never
used anyhing that I learned there. I continued on and go a degree in
Engineering.
Anyway, thanks for your help and thanks for not poking fun at my lame
questions about shop tools.

M



On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:49:24 -0800, "Lane" lane (no spam) at
copperaccents dot com wrote:

It is used in a height gage for measuring hole distances:
from: http://www.mitutoyo.com/catalog/pdf/P-17.pdf
. Allows quick measurement of center-to-center distance between holes.
. Measurable hole diameters: .04"-1.49"


"msterspy" wrote in message
.. .
Hi All: I was given a tool recently and as far as I can tell it is
called a center finder made in US by Mituyoyo.At least it says it's
made in the US but I can't imagine it would be with that brand name.
I found one on ebay exactly like the one I have.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...spagename=WDVW

I can't for the life of me figure out how this tool would be used or
where I can get any info on it. Is it used on a lathe? Any info on
this is greatly appreciated.

M