What do you use to measure your tophat with?

savagesam

Participant

April 26, 2008 at 2:56 pm

quote synopsys:

quote Chad Hauser:

Calipers are difficult to get under the top hat. Feeler guages require maffs and maffs is hard. Using the calipers to measure the feeler petals, as suggested, is what I found easiest. Another thing you can do is measure common stuff, especially if you don’t have a feeler set. A quarter, a nickle and a dime stacked, anything common that’ll have a standardized thickness. Maybe the key to your house? Mic a playing card with the calipers, prolly about .009 or .010 or so (i’m guessing). Stack enough of them and you have a home-made feeler that’s adjustable up or down by adding or subtracting a card or two. If you know your gun shoots Exacts best at 11 playing cards thick, and kodiaks better at 8 playing cards thick, who cares how many thousandths it is?

Yeah buddy, I like the way you think!!! 😉

“maffs” took me a second but I LMAO!!!! 😀

+1. That’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are!

synopsys

Participant

April 23, 2008 at 12:01 am

quote Chad Hauser:

Calipers are difficult to get under the top hat. Feeler guages require maffs and maffs is hard. Using the calipers to measure the feeler petals, as suggested, is what I found easiest. Another thing you can do is measure common stuff, especially if you don’t have a feeler set. A quarter, a nickle and a dime stacked, anything common that’ll have a standardized thickness. Maybe the key to your house? Mic a playing card with the calipers, prolly about .009 or .010 or so (i’m guessing). Stack enough of them and you have a home-made feeler that’s adjustable up or down by adding or subtracting a card or two. If you know your gun shoots Exacts best at 11 playing cards thick, and kodiaks better at 8 playing cards thick, who cares how many thousandths it is?

Yeah buddy, I like the way you think!!! 😉

“maffs” took me a second but I LMAO!!!! 😀

chad-hauser

Participant

April 19, 2008 at 3:10 am

Calipers are difficult to get under the top hat. Feeler guages require maffs and maffs is hard. Using the calipers to measure the feeler petals, as suggested, is what I found easiest. Another thing you can do is measure common stuff, especially if you don’t have a feeler set. A quarter, a nickle and a dime stacked, anything common that’ll have a standardized thickness. Maybe the key to your house? Mic a playing card with the calipers, prolly about .009 or .010 or so (i’m guessing). Stack enough of them and you have a home-made feeler that’s adjustable up or down by adding or subtracting a card or two. If you know your gun shoots Exacts best at 11 playing cards thick, and kodiaks better at 8 playing cards thick, who cares how many thousandths it is?

synopsys

Participant

April 18, 2008 at 11:42 pm

quote Phoo:

I bought feeler gauges and a caliper. Don’t really use the calipers though. Best place to find gauges are car part shops like Autozone. Could only find the disk shaped feeler gauge at Lowes/Home Depot.

You could use the calipers to measure the gauges that fit under the tophat… 😀 Saves some addition time! 😆

phoo

Participant

April 18, 2008 at 11:02 pm

I bought feeler gauges and a caliper. Don’t really use the calipers though. Best place to find gauges are car part shops like Autozone. Could only find the disk shaped feeler gauge at Lowes/Home Depot.

bodhisdad

Participant

April 16, 2008 at 12:15 pm

I have feeler gauges, they are “leafs” of metal on a peg kinda like a key ring. With mm/.000″ written on them, about 30 or so leafs (26) 🙄 measureing .635mm/.025 on down to .051mm/.002 by ten thousandths of an inch. Add them together for the desired distance in any increment and hold the leafs together as a gauge. Few bucks at the hardware store.