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Model Forum / General / Models / December 2006DIGITAL VERNIER
To save re inventing the wheel. Has any tried to take digital verniers a part and use them on plan steel bar to make read outs, if so did it work > Has any tried to take digital verniers a part and use them on > plan steel bar to make read outs, if so did it work If you are talking about those "cheap Chinese Scales", the answer is yes and yes. If you peel off the sticker (with the numbers) from the beam, you will discover a PCB with a comb-like pattern. You can peel that PCB off and stick it to whatever you want. You can even make your own PCB. Here's a modification of such a vernier: <http://www.yadro.de/digital-scale/mounting-modding.html> And here a bit more pictures of the various parts: <http://www.yadro.de/digital-scale/working.html> HTH, Nick  Signature*********************************** *** Available now in NZ and AUS *** *********************************** <http://www.yadro.de> >> Has any tried to take digital verniers a part and use them on >> plan steel bar to make read outs, if so did it work [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >HTH, >Nick That verynear looks familiar. You didn't get it from Liddl for a small handfull of Euros did you? Mark Rand RTFM > That verynear looks familiar. You didn't get it from Liddl for a small > handfull of Euros did you? They were from Lidl, Aldi and Penny. The real ones (read: longer) from Wabeco and RC-Machines. But they are basically all the same. Nick Signature*********************************** *** Available now in NZ and AUS *** *********************************** <http://www.yadro.de> > To save re inventing the wheel. Has any tried to take digital verniers a > part and use them on plan steel bar to make read outs, if so did it work Hi, Is this what you mean? http://www.pj-tooling.co.uk/units.asp SignatureM Stewart Milton Keynes, UK -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com Like that but at less costs ie DIY job >> To save re inventing the wheel. Has any tried to take digital verniers a >> part and use them on plan steel bar to make read outs, if so did it work [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Is this what you mean? > http://www.pj-tooling.co.uk/units.asp > To save re inventing the wheel. Has any tried to take digital verniers a > part and use them on plan steel bar to make read outs, if so did it work The bar isn't just steel, it's got a carefully-patterned PCB under the plastic strip.It might be possible to reproduce that but it isn't as easy as it first appears. See this page (owned by a regular contributor to this group) for more detailed description : http://www.yadro.de/digital-scale/working.html -adrian |
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