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    Quote Originally Posted by garage nut View Post
    Please show some more detail how you marked the increments on the rotating part.
    Have just been watching video upon video how to do it and I am not going to buy a 100 tooth saw blade to mark one little rotating dial.

    Looking for the best/easiest/fastest to manufacture carrage stop on this site.
    Lacking any mechanical means to divide a circle, there is another approach with a little trial and error. What ever the screw pitch of your stop is going to be [Imperial or Metric] determines a logical set of increments. 20 TPI is popular because it imparts an axial .050 per each revolution. Metric pitches have more selections 1.0, 2.0, etc; either way finer threads are more satisfactory. With a lathe, an available and convenient pitch can be cut on almost any diameter you chose, which will also control the male/ female fit, better than tap and die can produce, with next to zero backlash. An ideal feature of a good carriage stop. Save one end for a large diameter knob. You'll need to control its diameter [circumference] for a label carrying the increments.

    Once you have that planned, use a spreadsheet program [ie Excel] and set column widths to fall at the same circumferential distance the screw pitch and knob diameter dictate. Print that out, lacquer onto the knob; you and micrometer carriage stop are calibrated! Sounds tedious, but I've made accurate [but short] verniers exactly same way. I do not know a conversion of column width dimensions to conventional measurements, but someone here does for sure. All I've made only needed to work with each other, so actual size wasn't a requirement.
    I bet neither Bill Gates or his minions thought of Excel as a drawing program; I've done scaled drawings for years like that.
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