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    "Watt" Micrometer

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    • HornOxxH Offline
      HornOxx @Dave R
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      ...wunderbar and I love the way you present your "machines" โ™ฅ

      never trust a skinny cook

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      • Dave RD Offline
        Dave R @HornOxx
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        @HornOxx many thanks, sir.

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        • Rich O BrienR Online
          Rich O Brien Moderator
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          @Dave-R You plan to print that? Its a beautiful model.

          Soon you'll be able to open a digital museum of historical devices

          Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp ๐Ÿ“–

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          • Dave RD Offline
            Dave R @Rich O Brien
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            @Rich-O-Brien thank you!

            I don't plan to print this one although I suppose I could. I always work to make components solid in my models. Generally they are the cleanest and easiest to work with.

            I suppose I could get a good start on a digital museum. Neat idea.

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            • HornOxxH Offline
              HornOxx @Rich O Brien
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              @Rich-O-Brien which is true ๐Ÿ˜‰
              @Dave, assuming a liking and a at lest basic interest for such really so beautiful technical items, I ask myself, how do you come up with this or that??? (if I had to clear out my very old father's cellar, I could provide you with such material until, letยดs say, up to 2089)

              never trust a skinny cook

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              • Dave RD Offline
                Dave R @HornOxx
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                @HornOxx

                These things seem to find me. I come across various sources for dimensioned drawings of various machines and use them to make these models. I find them a good alternative to the woodworking models I tend to do for clients.

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                • HornOxxH Offline
                  HornOxx @Dave R
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                  @Dave-R ๐Ÿ‘ very understandable, and all the better that these kinds of things "cross your path [D: รผber den Weg laufen]", as we say here. I feel the same way, I do other (SkUp-)things for my private pleasure than the things I have to do to earn money...

                  never trust a skinny cook

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                  • Mike AmosM Offline
                    Mike Amos
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                    Another piece of artistic magic. The digital museum idea is a cracker too. ๐Ÿ‘

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                    • jo-keJ Offline
                      jo-ke @Dave R
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                      @Dave-R Beautiful model

                      http://www.zz7.de

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                      • Dave RD Offline
                        Dave R
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                        Thank you all.

                        For those who aren't familiar with reading micrometers, the lead screw which drives the moving anvil has 20 threads per inch. So one full turn of the screw moves the anvil 0.05 in. That moves the pointer on the small dial one division and of course the pointer on the large dial, a full revolution. The major divisions on the large dial indicate 0.001 in. I don't know how precisely the original lead screw's threads were made but a device like this can be quite precise in its measurements.

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                        • Dave RD Offline
                          Dave R
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                          I made a couple of exploded views just for fun.

                          Watt Micro Exploded_2_Page 2.png

                          Watt Micro Exploded_3_Page 3.png

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                          • Rich O BrienR Online
                            Rich O Brien Moderator @Dave R
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                            @Dave-R I just watched Indiana Jones Dial of Destiny and this reminds me of the Archimedes device.

                            Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp ๐Ÿ“–

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                            • Bryan KB Offline
                              Bryan K
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                              Very cool!

                              See my portfolio at https://delphiscousin.blogspot.com/

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                              • Dave RD Offline
                                Dave R
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                                Decided to do a simple render in Vray,
                                micro Vray.png

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                                • HornOxxH Offline
                                  HornOxx @Dave R
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                                  โ™ฅ lovely graphics! - is that a combined one with SkUp?

                                  never trust a skinny cook

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                                  • Dave RD Offline
                                    Dave R @HornOxx
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                                    @HornOxx thank you! Two ceparate lines-only exports from SketchUp combined with the render from Vray.

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                                    • Bryan KB Offline
                                      Bryan K
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                                      Great model and excellent presentation!

                                      See my portfolio at https://delphiscousin.blogspot.com/

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                                        ntxdave @Bryan K
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                                        @Dave-R
                                        That would be a neat model to view in a 3D viewer. ๐Ÿ‘

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                                        • Dave RD Offline
                                          Dave R @ntxdave
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                                          @ntxdave I don't have any thing to view it in 3D but here you poke around in the online SketchUp viewer.

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                                          • Rich O BrienR Online
                                            Rich O Brien Moderator
                                            last edited by Dave R

                                            The engineering in the spindle arm is something else. Its so refreshing to see the inners working compared to modern devices.

                                            This is so plug and play. You would struggle to disassemble and fix a modern micrometer and then recalibrate it yourself.

                                            I could disassemble a modern micrometer but probably couldn't reassemble it. ๐Ÿ˜‰

                                            Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp ๐Ÿ“–

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