TGTool
Titanium
- Joined
- Sep 22, 2006
- Location
- Stillwater, Oklahoma
I have a query from a potential customer asking if I can make replacement dials for a SB 13 he recently acquired that is missing dials and handles from both crossfeed and compound. Generally this isn't a problem. If I have a photo and dimensions of a worn or damaged dial, or perhaps just necessary dimensions and pitch I'll do it.
I asked for photos of the present condition, which he sent, along with the note that these say New Era. The photo of fiducial area shows it reading in both Imperial and Metric with a hollow that presumably held the transposing gears.
A short search hasn't turned up anything on a manufacturer. Anyone here have experience or a lead for more detail. I'm disinclined to re-engineer and make up the whole works so the obvious kludge is to just fill the hole and give him an imperial only dial that looks pretty much like the original but I'll take any comments or points before digging in.
I asked for photos of the present condition, which he sent, along with the note that these say New Era. The photo of fiducial area shows it reading in both Imperial and Metric with a hollow that presumably held the transposing gears.
A short search hasn't turned up anything on a manufacturer. Anyone here have experience or a lead for more detail. I'm disinclined to re-engineer and make up the whole works so the obvious kludge is to just fill the hole and give him an imperial only dial that looks pretty much like the original but I'll take any comments or points before digging in.