Spindle caliper |
May. 18/2014 I made a spring. |
1.Material is piano wire 0.35 mm in diameter. |
2.Twist piano wire around a 2-mm SUS round bar slowly. It is convenient if there is a lathe. |
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3.The spring was attached to the wire drum. |
4.As compared with the old model, this is far easier to handle. |
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1.I begin to make it after picturing a drawing. |
2.Making a main plate.I print out a part figure and I paste it to the aluminum board of 2mm with the sprayer paste and I cut it out with the jigsaw. |
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3.Drilling a plate, just as pasted drawing. |
4.Making the protection cover. The material is the acrylic board of 2mm. |
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5.Shaving an end surface. It become opaque when using a file. |
6.Making a part of scale.This part supports a indicator of scale. |
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7.Making a slide plate.tapping M3. |
8.The part of aluminum and acrylics was completed. |
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9.Making the part which receives a slide plate by rosewood. The ditch is the depth of 2.05mm. |
10.Tapping M3. |
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11.Making a reel for wire. The material is PVC board. |
12.Drilling a 10mm. |
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13.Making a slot on the surface of a reel. There, a wire and a spring enter. |
14.I inserted a reel in the drill of 10mm, and I pushed it by the turn center. |
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15.Making a hole of 2mm to put a wire to the reel. |
16.Make a shaft. Tapping M4 to the circle center. |
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17.Drilling a 1mm. An indicator enters here. |
18.Making a scale plate. The material is a beech. I cut off a fan type with outside 96mm, inside 55mm from this disk. |
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19.Painting to the white. |
20.Riveting the jaw to the main part plate. A rivet is aluminum of 2mm. |
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21.Assembling the all parts on the main plate.And I tune a slider part finely. |
22.Writing a scale.Because I didn't have a model,I turning a model by 5mm unit from 80 mm in diameter to 15 mm, I wrote a scale while adjusting to it. |
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23.The scale of the 1mm carving divided equally 5mm interval in 5 at the eye quantity. Attach an acrylic cover. |
24.I exchanged at the rubber band because the spring was strong. |
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25.It was complete. |
26.It is easy to be used because it is small. |
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