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23 minutes ago, John Morris said:

Thanks for all your tips Steve, this one stood out the most though, so I am assuming your placing calipers on a moving spindle or bowl. I didn't know if that was standard operating procedure or not so I erred on the side caution and turned the lathe off before I did a caliper check. With standard calipers, then it's ok to check dimensions while it's spinning, as long as the points are rounded or smooth?

 

John. Yes on a moving spindle. NO on a spinning bowl. On a spindle, the parting tool and calipers are often used in conjunction with each other. Never on a bowl.

 

Steve

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42 minutes ago, John Morris said:

Shoot, my button finger hit Buy Now, and it bought now! Got these just now off of Ebay for 12 bucks including shipping, nice American made 6" caliper.

Man I hate it when that happens...:P Well, now guess you will soon have "more stuff" to "clutter" up the pictures 'eh? :D

Sweet find...don't look like Starretts??? but maybe Brown & Sharp?? Either way, good old fashioned quality.

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use a piece of this for your tooling rack mount up on the wall....

easy visual and it won't collect much in the lines of chips...

build it a frees standing rack...

put it on a compound arm and hook the arm to the lathe base or wall...

there are a lot of variations and sizes to choose from...

 

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54 minutes ago, lew said:

Most of the type you pictured don't have a locking screw to make sure the setting sticks.

Thanks Lew for that information, I had never thought of that. This topic just keeps getting better, thanks to all who have shown up and given tips and suggestions for me, thanks so much guys.

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If doing spindles, open end wrenches make perfect calipers.  They are accurate and never move from their set.  I have been known to slot pieces of Plexiglas to the right size to match the parting tool thickness. 

 

Here is the stand I made from Stick's idea.  I did add a locating block up at the blade end because the tools would fall over to the side for lack of support.  The bottom is the weight from a discarded pole lamp.  I added legs to it also for more stability.

 

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