Mine is two pieces of 3/4" plywood laminated together and a Mitutoyo dial indicator.
Due to wood movement it has to be zeroed every time I use it.
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| Author: | sdsollod [ Wed Jun 04, 2014 8:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | thickness caliper |
I was thinking about making a thickness caliper using a dial indicator. I found this one on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/TÜRLEN-DIAL-INDICATOR-SPEC-0-001/dp/B0043F779K/ref=cm_cr_pr_sims_t It looks like it would work. What do you think? I'll have to put together a caliper. I'd like to see some shop made calipers so I can figure out how to make one. Can I see some photos? Thanks, Steve |
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| Author: | sdsollod [ Wed Jun 04, 2014 8:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: thickness caliper |
Actually, this one doesn't measure thick enough because I want it for arch top tops. I'll have to choose another. But, I still want to see some calipers that others have put together... |
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| Author: | RustySP [ Wed Jun 04, 2014 9:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: thickness caliper |
Mine is two pieces of 3/4" plywood laminated together and a Mitutoyo dial indicator. Due to wood movement it has to be zeroed every time I use it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 |
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| Author: | Burton LeGeyt [ Thu Jun 05, 2014 8:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: thickness caliper |
I was going to make one but realized I could get an extremely nice one used for very little. Mine is just like this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMES-HANDLED-DI ... 4ad6545a88 I love it, it works perfectly. |
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| Author: | Arnt Rian [ Fri Jun 06, 2014 3:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: thickness caliper |
I made this from plywood, works well enough. I don't know if would've borthered if I'd known I could get one for as little as the one Burton showed, though... 
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| Author: | Haans [ Fri Jun 06, 2014 5:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: thickness caliper |
Made mine before I got allergic to Coco. Used the parts from my old broken violin dial caliper that I had for 25 years... 
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| Author: | Colin North [ Fri Jun 06, 2014 6:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: thickness caliper |
Nice fix Haans! |
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| Author: | Dan Pennington [ Fri Jun 06, 2014 7:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: thickness caliper |
Here's my version of a thickness caliper. Not as pretty as some but it works for me. 
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| Author: | cphanna [ Sat Jun 07, 2014 9:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: thickness caliper |
Steve, this isn't what you have in mind, but it works for me. When I contemplated mine, I was not concerned so much with measuring thickness as with visualizing thickness. My reasoning was that I would do further scraping and sanding after the box was closed, so I just wanted to get in neighborhood, so to speak. I tried to make the tool pretty, and have never seen the need to supplement it with a dial caliper. But that's me. You might want to be more precise. Here ya' go: |
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| Author: | Dkeddy27 [ Sat Jun 07, 2014 11:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: thickness caliper |
I just used what I had in the shop!  
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| Author: | SteveG [ Sat Jun 07, 2014 2:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: thickness caliper |
I was going to make one from plans I found online here: http://sd-1.archive-host.com/membres/up ... ISSEUR.pdf When I went to eBay to buy a dial indicator I found a Kafer K200 graduating caliper for the price of a chinese dial indicator... |
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