skadisak
Aluminum
- Joined
- Nov 30, 2003
- Location
- Plymouth, MN, USA
Hello Group,
This thread is intended to start a discussion of and hopefully lead to the sharing of information on King Way alignment tools. Ultimately, it would be nice if rough plans and dimensions were accumulated and stored so that any member could refer to them to build a similar tool.
For those not up to speed on this tool, it is an adjustable level that rides on the ways of lathe beds for the purpose of proving the accuracy of the ways (fancy way of saying that it is a useful tool for rebuilders to determine consistency and parallism of the ways after scraping). This post is the follow on to a discussion started on the Monarch forum. Below are some excerpts of the prior discussion on Monarch. Please jump in.
There were two "official" versions of the King Way alignment tool. 300 and 100, I think.
When I purchased, at auction, an unknown version of that tool, it turned out, I believe, to be a prototype for a 50 way alignment tool.
Rimcanyon (Dave) has the dimensions of his 300, another member's 100, and my putative 50 King Way alignment tools.
It is possible to duplicate the tools from the patent literature (U.K. and U.S), with reference to some of the dimensions of the actual tools.
I made my putative King Way 50 available to Dave, and it and his 300 and another's 100 were measured in Dave's shop.
I believe Dave has all the measurements, as well as some ideas for making the repros using available tools.
The putative 50 doesn't have enough room for the standard King Way level unit, but the 300 certainly does, and the 100 may.
I have Rich's scraping tape (which I converted to DVD) and it is quite instructive.
Rich King's tapes and his instruction are highly recommended.
Peter,skadisak and company,
I too have been working on a replica of the King-way tool. I have made some preliminary drawings and have been collecting some materials.
I was fortunate to receive some information from a board member who beat me out on an ebay auction last fall, but I'd be interested in some more details if I could get them. ( I also was out bid on one about two weeks ago. it went for $450.00)
It seems like a fairly simple thing to replicate, once I have some basic dimensions to work from.
Chers
Pete
This thread is intended to start a discussion of and hopefully lead to the sharing of information on King Way alignment tools. Ultimately, it would be nice if rough plans and dimensions were accumulated and stored so that any member could refer to them to build a similar tool.
For those not up to speed on this tool, it is an adjustable level that rides on the ways of lathe beds for the purpose of proving the accuracy of the ways (fancy way of saying that it is a useful tool for rebuilders to determine consistency and parallism of the ways after scraping). This post is the follow on to a discussion started on the Monarch forum. Below are some excerpts of the prior discussion on Monarch. Please jump in.
There were two "official" versions of the King Way alignment tool. 300 and 100, I think.
When I purchased, at auction, an unknown version of that tool, it turned out, I believe, to be a prototype for a 50 way alignment tool.
Rimcanyon (Dave) has the dimensions of his 300, another member's 100, and my putative 50 King Way alignment tools.
It is possible to duplicate the tools from the patent literature (U.K. and U.S), with reference to some of the dimensions of the actual tools.
I made my putative King Way 50 available to Dave, and it and his 300 and another's 100 were measured in Dave's shop.
I believe Dave has all the measurements, as well as some ideas for making the repros using available tools.
The putative 50 doesn't have enough room for the standard King Way level unit, but the 300 certainly does, and the 100 may.
I have Rich's scraping tape (which I converted to DVD) and it is quite instructive.
Rich King's tapes and his instruction are highly recommended.
Peter,skadisak and company,
I too have been working on a replica of the King-way tool. I have made some preliminary drawings and have been collecting some materials.
I was fortunate to receive some information from a board member who beat me out on an ebay auction last fall, but I'd be interested in some more details if I could get them. ( I also was out bid on one about two weeks ago. it went for $450.00)
It seems like a fairly simple thing to replicate, once I have some basic dimensions to work from.
Chers
Pete