On Wednesday 12 November 2014 15:18:53 John Alexander Stewart did opine And Gene did reply: > Cleaning those strong magnets: I use Duct Tape for cleaning those > strong magnets. > > You know the tape - tearable, silvery stuff that dries out if you use > it to tape over hot air ducts...
Yup, the last half of the roll laying around until it cannot be unrolled to use. No toolbox is complete without a roll of that stuff. ;-) > I use these magnets for all kinds of things - e.g. my large lathe has > dial indicators held on by magnets (via an intermediary bit of > aluminium) and they still work very well 15 years later... (I keep > meaning to get a good DRO for the lathe, but these dial indicators are > just fine) I've installed homing switches on mine, but have yet to figure out a good way to calibrate the actual cutting tip position when swapping QC holders for this and that operations. What I need is another 4 or so tool holders so I never have to take a given tool out of its holder, just re-chip it. So, like everyone else, I make a test cut, measure and do a touch-off, sometimes several times because I keep forgetting the touch off is in radius units. Once that has been done, then the DRO is right there on screen. But I do use a magnetic base .0001" indicator to tweak the jaw tensions to get as small a run-out of the workpiece as I can, sometimes getting within the .0002" wobble range if I peck at it long enough. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154624111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
