Spindle Squaring Gadgets

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I was browsing Chronos's website this morning whilst waiting for the workshop to warm up and I found this interesting gadget.
www.chronos.ltd.uk/acatalog/info_SDP450.html

Very interesting, I thought, then I saw the price: £97 plus VAT!

I think I'll continue putting a square against a 10mm ground bar in the collet chuck with white paper behind it!
JB

[russell]

With a round column mill I just line up the quill against the column by sight. Good enough for most purposes and dead easy.

Otherwise mount a dial gauge on an arm in the collet.

Russell.

[engineernut]

On their special offer page I see they are down to £68 including vat and delivery.
At shows during the year will probably be closer to £50 when purchased in person.
Although probably a bit of a luxury certainly could do the job.
I built something substantial like this for the section that fits in the collet chuck on the mill and a .0001 thou DTI gauge securely fitted to that. Gauge came from an engineering quality control dept. .001 thou gauge would suffice but one does not look a gift horse in the mouth when offered it for a couple of pounds.