[PROJECT] Bridgeport Rebuild

[awemawson]

(12-27-2016, 07:07 PM)Mayhem Wrote:

(12-27-2016, 11:02 AM)awemawson Wrote: ...I sometime use a gun laying clinometer to set angular work...

I'd like to see a photo if you have one.

(12-27-2016, 11:02 AM)awemawson Wrote: If you don't 'get it' then you don't need to do it, it's purely voluntary, but it makes life easier  :)

I sometime use a gun laying clinometer to set angular work - it works out very accurate, which is not surprising when you think in the original application it let you drop a shell on a fox hole a mile away !

OK Here you go with photos of the four clinometers that I have. The ER Watts Field Clinometer is the one I use most, followed by the small angle one which only covers 0-10 degrees. The Hilger & Watts one is a proper workshop tool rather than a bit of military kit, and the Lucas Pendulum one I rarely use.

(The pictures never seem to stay in the order that I upload them, but I'm sure that you can see which is which easily enough.)

As I've said before, if the machine is dead nuts level, it makes their use simpler, but any one of them can work off an offset zero - it just slows things down, so if you REALLY hate the idea of getting your table level don't bother it's not compulsory - just use a saucer with your cup of tea