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sdsollod
 Post subject: thickness caliper
PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 8:08 pm 
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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?
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sdsollod
 Post subject: Re: thickness caliper
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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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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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Burton LeGeyt
 Post subject: Re: thickness caliper
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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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Arnt Rian
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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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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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Colin North
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Nice fix Haans!

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Dan Pennington
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Here's my version of a thickness caliper. Not as pretty as some but it works for me.
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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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I just used what I had in the shop!
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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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