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Offline skipskip

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Ames gauge mount
« on: September 30, 2012, 03:02:27 PM »
Not so much a what is it, but a how is it used.


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I know who Ames is, and I know what a gauge mount might do, but how does this one work?

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Re: Ames gauge mount
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2012, 04:01:08 PM »
Kind of looks like the old magnets we played with when I was a kid.

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Re: Ames gauge mount
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2012, 04:31:06 PM »
Ames made a variety of dial gauges, I guess as some of them have steel or cast iron frames, this could be used to hold them in a vertical plane, e.g on a surface plate or part of a machine...
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Re: Ames gauge mount
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2012, 05:26:58 PM »
Seen similar magnetic base to hold height gauge to a surface plate, but I haven't seen one like yours.
no threaded holes to hold dial indicator rods?
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Re: Ames gauge mount
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2012, 06:18:26 PM »
Quote from: oldtools on September 30, 2012, 05:26:58 PM

no threaded holes to hold dial indicator rods?

nope, just a plain horseshoe magnet about 4 1/2 inches long
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Offline EVILDR235

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Re: Ames gauge mount
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2012, 06:32:10 PM »
It looks like a Ford Model T magneto magnet. I have several with the Ford logo on them.

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Re: Ames gauge mount
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2012, 08:31:24 PM »
> Model T magneto magnet

I thought it looked familiar....

They show up at the flea every once in a while...

Probably available cheap, all you need to fasten a guage to it is a bolt through the V end with a washer and nut on each end....
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