How To Slipjoint washer tutorial posted

AVigil said:
The reality is sometimes everything is not concentric.
Sometimes the tang hole or bushing may have a few thousands of slop.

Last couple I made did not, but usually they have a couple of thousands off somewhere along the path of the bushing and tang interface.

That is why you make an index mark on the bushing, I just scribe a line at 6 O'clock to be sure what I see at the back spring and liners is always the same.

This is how I measure if there is any slop with the bushing and tang hole.

On my rise fall/Rupple Jig indicator I place the bushing, blade and spring.
I zero the indicator on the open position.
Move the blade to half stop allowing the bushing to rotate with the blade.
Hold the bushing down and do not let it move, then move the blade back to open.
Look at the indicator, did the reading change from zero?
Now repeat, moving the blade to close, allowing the bushing to pivont on pin.
Hold bushing down and move the blade all the way back to open.
Did the indicator return to zero?

If there is a change in the reading I rotate the bushing, on the indicator to the lowest reading point below zero. This way if the bushing moves it will only move the spring up and not down into the liners upon completion.

Hope that makes sense. I have not seen anyone else do this. It is something I worked out
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I'm obviously extremely new at this but I've done a ton of homework. That's a great idea Adam. Thanks for sharing!
 
Not in the position to get into a debate. Just wanted to put a tutorial out to help some folks. Lots of people use washers instead of bushings. For an example you would have a .125 thick blade and spring, then thin the blade to .115 and put two .005 washers in. Some guys don’t use either, all personal preference.
Might start a new thread with the actual tutorial.
 
AVigil said:
Please put up a tutorial.

"The do you guys want to see" posts, the answer is yes always yes. No one says "Nope do not want to see that"
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Working on it as we speak. Should be up tonight. Would you rather a nice post for it seeing as how this one got a little off topic?
 
Brady13 said:
Working on it as we speak. Should be up tonight. Would you rather a nice post for it seeing as how this one got a little off topic?
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Considering this post is listed as "How To Slip joint washer tutorial" You should post it here. Just edit it into your original post.
 
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