09-09-2012, 01:05 PM
Nice work as usual Claude, I missed the post with the numbers. Beautiful job. Your dial and vernier looks like it should work fine, but for myself I prefer decimal degrees, (personal choice), When Im working with angles its usually off a self inflicted drawing which come out in decimals, would have to then convert to minutes and seconds. As for thinning the base I'd hold off till the rest is designed, you may want the thickness for threading, also thinning the base will reduce the bearing area of the center pivot.
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Greg
Greg