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I've since learned of a very simple concept where a longer rod with a point sits in your tool holder and pushes into your center punch. It rotates a short distance from the work on a fulcrum showing a much exaggerated display of how far out of center you are as the long end wobbles. I need to make one of these soon!
You are showing some nice set-ups using the face plate. Still following along and enjoying your build and pictures.Bill
Great progress - and I admire your drive to find solutions. Although the dremel thing has me nerbvous. Please take care!Good results though. Interesting idea - grinding the 3 jaws.
I have to be honest, having had good success truing up a 4 jaw chuck having studied the technique, I am considering just mounting a 4 jaw and being done with it. With a bit of practice, centering the 4 jaw does not take long, and when you do it often enough probably produces better results than the 3 jaw. Maybe? Food for thought anyway.
Just catching up here. I also built this one and it’s one of the first that I “show off” to explain our hobby. Really nice work Prop.Cletus
Sorry to hear about that. How come the hand dial positioning was off? Did you go from the wrong datum or something? Or are the dials not right?
Well, it's been well over a year and my self preservation tried to block it. However, I'm pretty sure it's as simple as the part not being set up perfectly parallel to the table. It's one of those things where it is difficult to imagine I would have made that mistake, but also difficult to imagine it was anything else. The dials are good. I use them all the time.