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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  466 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Progress July 2023

What's gonna rule is I've got two microscopes to go with this thing.

I bought a centering scope when I bought the wheel hobs. Ostensibly you chuck that thing up in a tool holder and it lines up with the spindle and shows you bloody exactly where zero is. Looks like a bombsight through the eyepiece.

But more importantly, the FrankenKern came with this:

Yeah, machinist's borescope, with fiberoptic illuminator and ancient shitty CCD camera.

That's a dime through an iPhone. The thread on the back of it is some crazy number that nobody uses; it's been the holdup on getting that little puzzle working because it's gonna be FUNNNNNNNNN when it's all set up. 4k video cameras that strap on a microscope are like $200 ea so yer damn skippy any views of "machining" will be fuckin' front row.