10-17-2015, 08:40 PM
Decided to go with a steel dial, chemically blue it then polish off the surface hopefully leaving the lines blued.
Got the blank made, thats the original dial on top.
![[Image: IMG_1932.jpg]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aYZ9xsFRHZs/ViL1rqNVrkI/AAAAAAAADaw/2xd_JSerLok/s1280-Ic42/IMG_1932.jpg)
Tried to figure out the indexing head to cut the required 125 divisions. Works out that I need a 25 division plate, of course I don't have one, looked into compound indexing in the machinist handbook, decided it would be a whole lot easier to make a 50 decision plate using the 15 division one.
![[Image: IMG_1930.jpg]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9ox77H4iibI/ViL1rR6iOfI/AAAAAAAADas/sJ3f5QvVpjo/s1280-Ic42/IMG_1930.jpg)
Got the blank made, thats the original dial on top.
Tried to figure out the indexing head to cut the required 125 divisions. Works out that I need a 25 division plate, of course I don't have one, looked into compound indexing in the machinist handbook, decided it would be a whole lot easier to make a 50 decision plate using the 15 division one.
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Greg
Greg