Digital Angle Gauge

Anyone got any (clever or otherwise) uses for one of these other than their primary purpose.

So far I have :

1) Attach to cross slide handle. With a standard 27.7 TPI screw thread 10 degrees equates to 1 thou. Probably can do a metric version. it would have been easier if we had adopted Napoleon's idea of decimalising degrees.

2) Arrange sine bar of length I haven't bothered to calculate between column and quill on milling machine. With appropriate length degrees equate to downfeed.

3) With suitable calibration (donations of funds for this important work needed) relate angle of lean on Saturday night to degree of intoxication.

Stick it to a chuck jaw for dividing/marking angles without removing work from lathe

5) Fix it to the Minute hand of a clock ... Digital readout should show tenths of a Second.

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 05/04/2013 16:00:28

Ah, but what happens if you end up horizontal, or should that be 'level', alongside the lathe?

Andrew

G'day

I made a super accurate model aircraft propeller pitch gauge with mine

Regards from down-under

CU Later * Danny M *

Hi Danny M

I would like to see how you made your pitch gauge it might be useful for making my hydroplane props instead of using angle gauges.

If you could show me it would be appreciated.

Paul

Hi Paul.

I actually used a digital angle gauge from:

www.arceurotrade.co.uk/Catalogue/Measurement/Squares-Angle-Gauges-Protractors

Thanks Danny M look forward to a Photo of it.

I get my angles/ radius when I had sorted the pitch I required then draw it usind cad and the angles were displayed.

My prop pitch gauge is a block of steel with a centre pivot, stops for the prop and a series of slots at various radiuses then angle gauges out of shim.

It is very time consuming as the prop is made from a block of high tensile steel then heat treated to stand the loads of a prop rider.

Paul