A Custom DTI Dial: Dividing on a Myford Super 7
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Published 2022-12-02
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Dial manufacture: Alastair Godfrey
Filming: Alastair Godfrey
Editing: Mike Godfrey
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All Comments (20)
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Thank you for this! Making faces that are deliberately less-reflective, so they may be more easily read under bright Youtube recording light for instance, is another application for this technique!
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Beautifully crafted and documented. Thank you indeed. An inspiring idea. ππππ
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Making a custom dial this way was great to watch. BTW: If making custom watch faces is of interest, the WatchComplications channel by 10/6 has a play list on using either pad printing or waterslide decals for making custom watch faces.
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Well done! I have always wanted to make a custom dial and instead just glued a thin paper printout on the old face. Gotta reface my indicator soon!
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Just superb , so generous and informative, thank you
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Another excellent video!
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i have a lot of respect for what you do , if i don,t have the same facilities, could i just make a spring loaded plunger that i set at the height i require and then shim the cutter up till it touches the plunger, using a selection of the shims like you do. cheers john
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i first saw this tool in action in another video and i thought it was a store bought item, wow
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Beautiful work, love your vids, you're the British Click Spring. Subscribed! Greetings from Southport.
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wow so simple :) I can manage most, except the engraved numbers, hmm more hours to try something new thanks.
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Have you thought of adding a GHT style HDA to your arsenal?
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yay
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I feel so spoiled having a fiber laser. Load up a quick drawing and it will cut tho and engrave it at the same time.
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Why not engrave the divisions whilst it is on the rotary table? Is there an advantage to all the effort of fitting a dividing head to the lathe? Alternatively, do it all in the lathe, with the peg a small part that fits into a small slot in the dial. (esp. for those without rotary table- or even a mill). Personally, I would have just printed out a dial, and stuck it to the face... For most indicators only an inner ring with the numbers will be needed. Given that most DIs have a secondary pointer, this is way easier (engraving the secondary is a big complication) An alternative- use a digital caliper (cheap) with the depth probe sensing the tool bit, instead of the DI. Direct digital readout of the shim size needed. I would mount it horizontally.
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spelt Guilloche maybe !
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Looking at this I'm thinking "Do I really want my 76 year old eyes messing with the internals of a DTI ? Not to mention all the rest of this procedure?". I see three easier alternatives..... (1) Use a Digital DTI. (2) Reverse a DTI's readout by using basic pivot point physics (1:1 leverage) that can be easily fabricated with very basic tools. It would be more fun to fabricate than messing around inside a DTI. (3) Simple math. Wakodahatchee Chris
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"I encourage you to look into Guilloche" 3 hours later, Googling "Guilloche engine for sale" Sees price π
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Keep doing a great job. You need to look into *promo sm*!!!
