| Spindle caliper | 
| May. 18/2014 I made a spring. | 
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| 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. | |