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Setting out an angle on the mill table so that I can machine a set of gears at 9.5°. I know lots who will now be screaming at me to use a sine bar. It might be easiest to start with the simple right angle triangle. Below we see the triangle with the 9.5° angle, … Read more
The brass and black main body of the Veritas marking gauge makes it very distinctive, this is the fine adjust version and so the thumb wheel lock for the body and the threaded lock/fine adjustment. The instructions are simple and not really needed as this is so simple to use. The only useful insight to … Read more
For years I have used engineers blue as the basis for when I’m marking out a piece of work, but of late I have swapped to using a permanent marker. The table that I recently made for my Unimat 3 Pillar Drill. Here I marked the table with a permanent marker and left it to … Read more