Quick Caliper! Lathe Tool Height Gauge

[@LarryDoolittle]

I could watch you clean off rust and dirt for hours. What is wrong with me? Hehe!

[@BurtonsAttic]

You? What's wrong with me???

[@LarryDoolittle]

@@BurtonsAttic You are just so good at doing it. A wizard of rebuild.

[@robertburns2415]

Nice addition to your toolbox congratulations.

[@andyZ3500s]

That caliper has some history to it. On the back it says made in Germany for George Scherr Co. New York. I don't know alot about George Scherr but he was involved in the Scherr Tumico co. I know that he had something to do with wood machinist chests and I think drafting tables.

[@ActiveAtom]

Mouser wow we buy some of our electronic components for PCB prototype builds projects from them they are so fast and so nice to us little guys. You made that tool nice and usable again good find John. We see why you needed it for your lathe tool height setter makes sense, thank you. Lance & Patrick.

[@projectgattago]

I wager to say this is a different Mouser.

[@woodscreekworkshop9939]

Nice to see you gave it a good second life!

[@outsidescrewball]

nice tool and cleanup...gave me a build idea...

[@BurtonsAttic]

I use it all the time. It's set to lathe center line from the top of the cross slide. Set it on the cross slide, flip whatever tool holder/tool that needs reset to center line around towards the cross slide on the multifix. Gauge the height to the caliper, flip the tool holder back around to whatever cut position and back to work. Fastest way I have found to find center...

[@michaelthomas7898]

Just found your channel and it's really cool. You have the same machines I do. I don't have a tapper attachment for my lathe but it is well equipped. And I've never used the horizontal drive on the mill. But all in all I've got some serious viewing to do. There are groups out there for information on these machines. Parts are sometimes hard to come by but are out there even if they are homemade. I belong to a yahoo group for the lathe they have shop manuals and old guys with much experience. Thanks for posting and keep up the good work.

[@BurtonsAttic]

Thanks for commenting Micheal!

[@nicobogaard2315]

In my schoolyears (end 60’es early 70’s) in The Netherlands (lower technical school / (sort of junior college up to 4 years for all technical skill from maconery, metal, wood and food technics) the technics wanted mauser or mutitoyom both unpayable in the days. The beak of the mauser (also for inner measuring, but how again?) is very special. Love it, geat find, thanks for sharing.

[@incubatork]

Could have been made for the UK market too(more than likely)in the pre decimal days. Lots of machinists still use imperial over metric, I took to the metric a lot easier than most even though at school it was always imperial. Everything to the power of 10.

[@BurtonsAttic]

Maybe....I said that just because the importer was based in New York.

[@trollforge]

@@BurtonsAttic it did sound like you meant that it was it was imperial... BTW you do know that Canada only started metrification in 1973...

[@salr362]

Wonderful video as usual my friend. Subscribed to your great channel. Regards from N. Ireland.

[@dannywilsher4165]

Nice Mauser, thanks CB!!!

[@silverbullet7434]

We use to take wax pencils in black or red and rub it in the engravings and numbers n lines to make it easy read. It'll fill in and wipe off the rest.

[@mikkosha]

Reminds me of Berlin in Germany. People steal everything at work. I lost many gloves, umbrellas, 3pneumatic impact drivers (within one week), vernier callipers and a entire Desktop Computer (I got it new the day before and when I returned to work the next day it was gone...) I lost countless ratchets and screwdrivers too... I’m glad I moved to another city :)

[@BurtonsAttic]

That's beyond rough!

[@mikkosha]

@@BurtonsAtticwell that's Berlin (^-^;) at the very best you will get insulted for complaining about it...

[@flashpointrecycling]

Beautiful!

[@rogerlaubhan7700]

Try some paste wax on this. Prevents rust, lubes the slide, and it will look & feel great

[@Made2hack]

Is this a precision piece? How critical is the surface finish of the base and the measuring ends?

[@BurtonsAttic]

As I showed in the video it is accurate to .001 which is what it was designed to do. Since I'm using it as a height gauge the value is not important to me. It's just for transferring dimensions. The stand is not calibrated to the scale but it is flat......

[@MCBWoodworks]

Man that cleaned up well! I have an old Mauser rifle, do you know if it’s the same company?

[@BurtonsAttic]

It is!

[@MCBWoodworks]

Cool!

[@RickSolid1]

I think CB got a new engraver. Sweet find tho.

[@BurtonsAttic]

I didn't think about that Rick! I can see now- CB says "Hey check out my new engraver". After all the damage is done the shop foreman walks by and says something smart like "CB, that thing works great! But you know you just killed the future resale value of that caliper". Everyone looks at each other like ah S#*T!

[@RickSolid1]

Burton's Attic A boneheaded move on CB’s part but sweet find for you...and a sweet price too!

[@DavidWalling]

I had the same problem when the wife bought me a label maker...

[@bulldawg6259]

Thanks I just learned how to solve a problem

[@BurtonsAttic]

Glad to help!

[@jimhunt5259]

should be great for measure any height to another.

[@motopreserve]

With that many initials on there, he might as well have written the full history of the tool....heck, perhaps the complete history of measuring tools in general :)

[@BurtonsAttic]

Old CB must have had a bad experience at some point!

[@motopreserve]

Agreed. Seems like this may have been the one and only tool he had left after someone walked off with the rest.... Likely due to the fact that he had only put 14 marks on the others. Clearly 42 marks is the magic number!

[@Soggstermainia]

Is that wd40 your using to clean it up with the scotchbrite? Or a solvent?

[@BurtonsAttic]

Odorless Mineral Spirits

[@Soggstermainia]

@@BurtonsAttic thank you!

[@riversvic]

When you pointed to the engraving all I saw was the Mauser logo and my jaw on my desk.

[@BurtonsAttic]

They made a few different measuring tools over the years.

[@andyZ3500s]

Mauser is the same company that made rifles. I think they are still in business and make some great products. If anyone knows if there tooling is imported to America leave a comment thanks

[@CraigLYoung]

Nice Addition! (Why can't I find good things like that :(, he says jealously)

[@BurtonsAttic]

A lot of looking yields a few good results........

[@johndoe9536]

If its rusty then its low grade stainless at best.

[@aaronreniers3673]

It’s probably very low grade stainless. The higher the grade the less magnetic it is, to even non magnetic at all.

[@BurtonsAttic]

I think that's why it's not marked as such.......

[@plymouth-hl20ton37]

High grade stainless steel is not heat treatable 400 grade stainless is heat treatable 400 is magnetic

[@BurtonsAttic]

That's one area I'm lacking in Ed. Thanks for the information. It does seem to be hardened as well. I guess at that time they (Mauser anyways) wheren't to concerned with labeling things as such "Hardened Stainless Steel"

[@mealex303]

That would take 5 mins with a flap disk on an angle grinder????? HAHAHAHA😂