world famous bobski mystery thing, pic #138
it has a needle that is effected by touching the little round tip on the other end. it has a hole in it so small, a paperclip will fit in it.
what kind of gauge is this?
age?
value?
complete?
what kind of gauge is this?
age?
value?
complete?
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Something you can poke into wood/drywall then rotate and make a circle pattern. 0 -
Does the tip on the right pivot? 0 -
It's a old style 10th's (1 tenth of a thousanth or 100 millionths) indicator, the numbers on the flat end are .0001" movement of the end with the hole in it. The nut/stud are used to mount it.
AKA a "last word" indicator. BTW, I still have one or 2 of those, but now I use my Interapid .0005 and .0001 dial indicators.
It's a machinests tool, put it with your dad's lathe stuff0 -
yes, tip pivots.
where does it mount with the lathe?
why the hole on the tip? is something missing?0 -
Old style indicator, used for tooling and such. 0 -
is it complete?
age?0 -
Complete, yes
Age,??? they made em like that from the teens right up into the 60's, so it's hard to say the exact age.0 -
why the hole in the tip? 0 -
No good answer for you there Bob, but as it's not threaded (at least mine arn't) for a contact pin, my best guess is weight reduction. It could also allow it to measure a pulling motion with some type of linkage (wire or string?). Normaly you run the side of the round end aganst the part your checking for true (IE while setting up a 4 jaw lathe chuck), or mount it on a surface gauge to check for parallel surfaces. 0
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