In all my years playing in my shop, I've never run into a situation where I needed to know the absolute distance from the mount of my Finger Dial Test Indicator to the finger's contact point. Today I had the need. Here is how I measured this distance to within 0.001 inches.
If you are interested, please see
http://rick.sparber.org/FCRFD.pdf
Your comments are welcome. All of us are smarter than any one of us.
Thanks,
Rick
Thanks Rick! We've added your DTI Center of Rotation Determination to our Measuring and Marking category, as well as to your builder page: Rick's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:
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