marka12161
Stainless
- Joined
- Dec 23, 2016
- Location
- Oswego, NY USA
I recently bought a pallet of angle plates & angle irons at an auction. About half of them had reamed and tapped holes for mounting & fixturing parts. The other half dozen or so were blank angle irons with smooth surfaces. Some of these had marks suggesting they were used as inspection surfaces.
At some point, i'm going to need a largish precision square to align the dovetailed cross slide ways on my (monarch 16CY) carriage perpendicular to the bed ways (after adding turcite to the carriage V and flat ways). My plan had been to buy a granite square for this purpose but one of the large angle irons is big enough for my purpose. IS there any reason i can't/shouldn't use this as a reference surface assuming i verify perpendicularlity?
At some point, i'm going to need a largish precision square to align the dovetailed cross slide ways on my (monarch 16CY) carriage perpendicular to the bed ways (after adding turcite to the carriage V and flat ways). My plan had been to buy a granite square for this purpose but one of the large angle irons is big enough for my purpose. IS there any reason i can't/shouldn't use this as a reference surface assuming i verify perpendicularlity?