Set Up Gauge

[wholeshoe]

All

I purchased a setup gauge along with some other items from SS. I received them yesterday and I assume the setup gauge after seeing it is to replace using the allen wrench that the book describes for setting things.

Am I correct??

Art

[dusty]

All

I purchased a setup gauge along with some other items from SS. I received them yesterday and I assume the setup gauge after seeing it is to replace using the allen wrench that the book describes for setting things.

Am I correct??

Art
Part number or picture, please.

If what you received is two aluminum rods attached together by set screws in a small aluminum bar you might be right. However, it is used, along with the miter gauge, to make repetitive cross cuts of the same length. It is a "cross cut jig".

PS The item that I was referring to above is actually called a "Miter Stop Rod" (505629) and might not be what you have. An allen wrench is sometimes used in lieu of the the stop rod during table alignment.

Need to know more about what you received to be certain.

[a1gutterman]

Hi Art,
What Dusty said! That is the only use that I can think of for replacing the hex wrench. You will still need the hex wrench for other functions.

[JPG40504]

All

I purchased a setup gauge along with some other items from SS. I received them yesterday and I assume the setup gauge after seeing it is to replace using the allen wrench that the book describes for setting things.

Am I correct??

Art
If I am correct in assuming you are referring to SS PN 555884 (Dial Setup Gauge), then YOU ARE CORRECT! It CAN be used instead of the miter gauge and hex wrench.:) :) :) :) As well as other uses.

[dusty]

The slightly misleading statement was

"I purchased a setup gauge along with some other items from SS. I received them yesterday and I assume the setup gauge after seeing it is to replace using the allen wrench that the book describes for setting things".

Since Shopsmith refers to the dial indicator as the dial setup gauge, you are most certainly right on, JPG. :confused: How you got past the reference to the allen wrench is what amazes me. :confused:

[JPG40504]

The slightly misleading statement was

"I purchased a setup gauge along with some other items from SS. I received them yesterday and I assume the setup gauge after seeing it is to replace using the allen wrench that the book describes for setting things".

Since Shopsmith refers to the dial indicator as the dial setup gauge, you are most certainly right on, JPG. :confused: How you got past the reference to the allen wrench is what amazes me. :confused:

It took a while. I first had to get past thinking of jointer blade setup gauge. Your reference to the miter gauge stop rod got me to thinking of using it to 'setup up the table'(align to blade). At that 'aha' point the reference to the hex wrench was apparent. Still not obvious WHAT he was referring to.

When there is no obvious conclusion, we must start putting our brain in shot gun mode and NOT get too specific with the 'input'. I admit to thumbing through a SS catalog looking for 'setup gauge'. THAT is when the missing 'word' was discovered(dial). His referring to 'setting things' WAS a bit of a mis-direction(Not very specific). I had to assume 'some' of the words used were from SS(setup gauge).

So much for using scatter brained 'thinking' to reach a 'correct' but non-obvious LOGICAL conclusion.:D

P.S. is this a good example of "NON-LINEAR" 'thinking'?

[dusty]

I don't know if this is an example of "linear thinking" or not. I don't believe I do anything that is very linear.

What I did to try to figure out what was being discussed was a keyword search in the PDF catalog. I came up empty so I started guessing. You can now see where that got me.

However, I just did an item number search on the part number you referenced and while the dial indicator 555884 is referred to as the "dial indicator", in the text Shopsmith calls it the Dial Indicator Set-Up Gauge.

I believe you have nailed it.

[JPG40504]

I don't know if this is an example of "linear thinking" or not. I don't believe I do anything that is very linear.

What I did to try to figure out what was being discussed was a keyword search in the PDF catalog. I came up empty so I started guessing. You can now see where that got me.

However, I just did an item number search on the part number you referenced and while the dial indicator 555884 is referred to as the "dial indicator", in the text Shopsmith calls it the Dial Indicator Set-Up Gauge.

I believe you have nailed it.
The old catalog in which I stumbled onto it referred to it as: Dial Set-Up Gauge.

BTW I was referring to my 'thinking' as NON linear!

I disagree with your second statement. Methinks you do many things in a linear fashion.:cool: