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Hi All
This short video shows the principal of using a sticky pin to position the spindle over the work piece. This is a very quick and simple method I use, mainly on the drill but works just as well on the milling machine.
Thank you again for taking to view my posts
The Home Engineer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTel4bvkByM&t=28s
We call them "Wigglers", but otherwise used identically.
I find bringing the pin to center with two fingers works for me, touching nails of index and middle finger creating a Vee. The fingernails touch at sort of a 90` angle to each other, once about midpoint of the shaft to reduce the wild swings, then at point.
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I knew there was something I was missing out on with my calloused hands. The idea of being able to make my fingernails touch is foreign to me and mine are usually long enough to use as screwdrivers. I can just make the edges of my thumbnail touch 3 of the other fingers forget about reaching the nose of ear cleaning fingernail.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
If I use my other hand I can just bend the fore finger enough so the nail of the middle can touch the top of the index but I have to use both hands to make my fingers cross passed me by at a very young age from swinging a hammer on an anvil.
I just pinch the wigglers between thumb and forefinger to stabilize them.
How timely.. I had this tool in Dad's tool box and thought he called it a Wiggler and I knew it had something to do with finding center.
I had always used the common edge finders that you find today with the cylinder on the working end. Now I have a tool designed to find a line!
A few days ago while working on my clamps I actually used it to indicate an edge. Not sure if that was proper use but it worked.
First find one edge by getting the needle centered with the fingers. I had the depth just deep enough to have the taper on the point touch the edge of the part. Touch the edge of the part by moving the mill table and zero the DTI. Moved it to the other edge without changing the height and found that edge. Divided by 2 and found the center. Worked great.
Thanks for the demo Homeengineer.
Now if I only knew how to use the stems with the ball on both ends.
Here is a picture.
Note the sleeve on the housing. The housing is cracked and it was repaired with the sleeve.
Cheers, JR
Hi JR
In the photo the bottom bent piece is a mount for your DTI clock to attach to, the two diameters are standard fitting diameter for the clamps. The middle one is an edge finder for getting in to small places, you need to run the spindle between 600/700rpm and as you bring it into contact with the edge of the work piece it will straighten until running true then as you just go over centre it will flick off. The spindle at this point is half the edge finder away from centre/edge of work piece. Move half the diameter of the finder (small diameter) and you have now set a datum for that edge. I am away this weekend but I will do you a video on using edge finders to clarify this explanation when I get back.
The Home Engineer
Excellent info thank you homeengineer. Now I have a new (old) tool to use.
Have a great weekend.
Cheers, JR
Hi JR
As you are probably aware I have just got in to doing these videos. I trust the site and its members are happy for me to post the videos as they are not actually homemade tools? I guess if they were unhappy I would have been told?
The Home Engineer
When I post about how to do something, as opposed to an actual homemade tool, I put the post in the "Tool Tips and Tricks" sub-forum. Keeping tool and use-of-tool separated makes sense to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by thehomeengineer
Hi Homeengineer, I don't look in the other forums too often. I hang out here so posting your items here, for me, works great.
I have noticed the the administrators will move posts that fit in another forum that they have as necessary.
Tool tips and trick's is a forum I will start watching since many tool uses either commercial or home built could be posted there first.
Cheers, JR
Well now that got me thinking. I just checked all of the moved items from the homemade tools forum and all of the moved items were
moved to the must read forum. So looks like if it is posted here it stays here. I will still start checking the tips and tricks forum for new ideas....
Double Cheers, JR
Rather than going to a specific sub-forum, I find it more profitable to read "What's New?"...see the button at the top of the page or use this URL...Quote:
Originally Posted by jjr2001
Activity Stream - Homemade Tools Forum
This way, I see all the new posts from all the sub-fora.
Another trick is to browse this page: https://www.homemadetools.net/best
We setup that page so that it ONLY features tool builds from the Must Read subforum. Nobody can start a new discussion in the Must Read subforum; discussions are manually moved in there monthly, once they accrue 5+ Thanks votes (and weekly if the thread starter wins a Homemade Tool of the Week award). On the Best page, each tool card links directly to the exact featured forum post. Almost all of the "Moved: " threads you see have been moved into Must Read because of their high quality.
We did this after a months-long retention test. Turns out that viewing our Must Read subforum was strongly correlated with long-term forum retention. I've been recommending to all forum admins that they implement some sort of permanent system to filter out and constantly promote their forum's best threads, beyond just sticky'ing good threads to the top of a subforum.
Another trick is to roll your own search url, like this:
The above url searches for new posts from the past 2 days (searchdate=2), sorted by newest first (sortby=lastpost), and displays results as threads, rather than posts (showposts=0), and excludes new posts from various forums identified by forumid (exclude=12,24,26,29,30,31,35,37,41,42,43,44,45,46).Code:https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/search.php?do=process&contenttype=vBForum_Post&exclude=12,24,26,29,30,31,35,37,41,42,43,44,45,46&searchdate=2&beforeafter=after&sortby=lastpost&showposts=0
Beyond that, you can use an RSS reader to pull new posts per your specifications, even combined with a desktop RSS feed notifier, so you'll get a little notification every time there's something new that you want to see. This trick is best for rapidly skimming new stuff from multiple websites at once.
The new homepage is also not terrible: HomemadeTools.net Homepage . But it will be a bit light for more frequent site users.
And if there is a builder whose work you like, view all his tools here: Homemade Tools Builders - HomemadeTools.net . We're still working on adding a "View all my tools" link to everyone's forum postbit (under their avatar). There is an entity resolution challenge here, in sorting out "Toolguy123" on HomemadeTools.net, from the same-named user on some other website whose tools we've indexed.
Thanks Marv and Jon. That What's new link is very worthy of my attention from now on.
I usually just look at the homemadetools forum and sort it by new first.
Jon, thanks for the explanation of the web site and the notes on Best and Must Read forums.
I will try to use them more often than I used to.
Cheers, JR
I'm an avid searcher on this site and have been so for a few years. Daily and often several times a day I scroll through each and every sub-forum when there are new posts I look at the post times compared to my last visit. When it comes to the builders page I frequently fall down a rabbit hole reading their older builds. If there was a click pay to my browsing we could pay the national dept with the proceeds
It's not just this forum. Most of the better fora have the equivalent of the "What's New?" button.Quote:
Originally Posted by jjr2001
I like the feature because it more or less forcibly exposes me to material I might otherwise skip over. For example, the Chaski site has a very active Live Steam Railroading sub-forum. Having no interest in that subject, I would never look at it. However, new items pop up in front of me and, unsurprisingly, on a number of occasions I've learned something, even extending to a few new tools.
Great idea Frank. I think we should call it Hmtcoin and have it automatically sent to the treasury.
Cheers, JR
Good point Marv, I find HMT is my institution of higher learning.
[QUOTE=Jon;106530]Another trick is to browse this page: http://www.homemadetols.net/best
Jon:- This link is not working for me. Check the typo, "tols" instead of "tools", but even when I change it to tools it still doesn't work.
Derp, thanks, fixed. You would think I would be able to spell "tools" correctly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moby DuckJon:- This link is not working for me. Check the typo, "tols" instead of "tools", but even when I change it to tools it still doesn't work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon