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"Ace" <[email protected]> wrote:
>In their latest flyer they have a dial gauge on sale for 9 dollars or so.
>How would this be for a home shop? I don't want to spend 40 or 50 bucks for
>a home shop. If I were a pro I'd spend more.
It will work fine. You clamp it onto your miter gauge or a block of wood
clamped to your miter gauge and measure away. Be sure to keep the miter
gauge pressed to one side of the slot the entire time. Nothing to it.
If you think about it, accurracy doesn't even matter because you're trying
to adjust it to where there is no needle movement. Not that I think the HF
dial isn't accurate.
"Ace" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> In their latest flyer they have a dial gauge on sale for 9 dollars or so.
> How would this be for a home shop? I don't want to spend 40 or 50 bucks
for
> a home shop. If I were a pro I'd spend more.
> Thanks
>
I got one yesterday and have been playing with it. It seems okay, though
buying the magnetic base was probably not necessary. Maybe I will find
another use for it.
"Bruce" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> In rec.woodworking
> "Ace" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >In their latest flyer they have a dial gauge on sale for 9 dollars or so.
> >How would this be for a home shop? I don't want to spend 40 or 50 bucks
for
> >a home shop. If I were a pro I'd spend more.
>
> It will work fine. You clamp it onto your miter gauge or a block of wood
> clamped to your miter gauge and measure away. Be sure to keep the miter
> gauge pressed to one side of the slot the entire time. Nothing to it.
>
> If you think about it, accurracy doesn't even matter because you're trying
> to adjust it to where there is no needle movement. Not that I think the
HF
> dial isn't accurate.
In a setup like this, the dial gauge has to be precise, but not necessarily
accurate.
todd.
In article <NCnRb.128453$nt4.575016@attbi_s51>, Ace <[email protected]> wrote:
>In their latest flyer they have a dial gauge on sale for 9 dollars or so.
>How would this be for a home shop? I don't want to spend 40 or 50 bucks for
>a home shop. If I were a pro I'd spend more.
>Thanks
>
>
For setup of tablesaw and other wood shop tools it will be just fine.
For another $10 or so you can also get their magnetic base.
--
Larry Wasserman Baltimore, Maryland
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[email protected] (Bruce) wrote in message
>
> >In their latest flyer they have a dial gauge on sale for 9 dollars or so.
> >How would this be for a home shop? I don't want to spend 40 or 50 bucks for
> >a home shop. If I were a pro I'd spend more.
>
> It will work fine. You clamp it onto your miter gauge or a block of wood
> clamped to your miter gauge and measure away. Be sure to keep the miter
> gauge pressed to one side of the slot the entire time. Nothing to it.
>
> If you think about it, accurracy doesn't even matter because you're trying
> to adjust it to where there is no needle movement. Not that I think the HF
> dial isn't accurate.
Agreed. This is how I measured my new G1023S for square. Just a dial
indicator on a stick. Don't see the need to spend lots of money on a
commercial contraption that does the same thing.
Brian.
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 06:33:17 GMT, "Ace" <[email protected]> wrote:
>In their latest flyer they have a dial gauge on sale for 9 dollars or so.
>How would this be for a home shop? I don't want to spend 40 or 50 bucks for
>a home shop. If I were a pro I'd spend more.
>Thanks
>
they work fine. just don't drop them.
I own several cheapies and several good ones. for my purposes they
work the same. they have different configurations, and sometimes I
want to have more than one in play at a time.
Bridger