Machinist's Minute: Dialing in on a housing

A neat trick for sure.

[@leslieandrews6324]

Thinking outside the housing

[@donniev8181]

Thinking outside the shaft lol

[@ypaulbrown]

freaking fantastic John,,,,,,you are such a gift to the machining world......thank you from Florida, Paul

[@HanstheTraffer]

Thanks...The stuff you learn on the internet is stuff it would take several life times to learn on your own.

[@bobbolieu9013]

That is Keeping It Simple Simon. That is seeing beyond the mess and realizing what you have at hand.

[@natereinhold6180]

Used to use basically the opposite of this near daily! Aligning a non-rotating punch shaft to non-rotating redraw assy. Put the indicator on the punch tooling and spin the punch tooling on the shaft to sweep the redraw die.

[@John-NeverStopLearning]

Very nice 👍

[@dans_Learning_Curve]

You got me for a moment about the indicator on the housing!

[@4heartsmicrofarm]

BRILLIANT!

[@skwerlz]

Some people play 4D chess, other people live it.

[@alexduke5402]

Dude sounds and kinda looks like Walter from breaking bad lol

[@PraxZimmerman]

There's got to be some Robin Renzetti level inacuracies inherent with that right?

[@dans_Learning_Curve]

What part are you machining?

[@mikerayle6103]

Im no expert but wouldnt the bearings tolerances cause issues. It would get you close but not exact. A few thousands might make a difference. Either way it is outside of the box/housing type thinking

[@TheCreedBratton]

But that is assuming the housing is uniform. Most castings are not