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Used to eyeball my offsets with a scale and now I dial them in with an indicator
For 3 years I set my tool offsets by touching off and checking the scale, and I scrapped maybe 4 parts a year because of it. Bought a 0.0005 indicator for $60 off a retiring guy in Dayton and my scrap went to zero on the last 40 parts. Anybody else switch over, or do you still trust the scale on the older machines?
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evant481mo ago
That $60 indicator paid for itself on the first part you saved. Scrap runs me about $40 a piece on 6061 stock, so four a year is $160 gone plus the machine time. I ran a scale for years on a Bridgeport and yeah, you get good enough at it, but good enough still means chasing tenths on the dial and hoping. A tenth indicator takes the guessing out of it. Zero scrap on 40 parts tells you everything.
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