Center of plate finder.
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 8:12 am
When applying purple glue stick to the glass I initially covered the whole plate - which made no sense for ~5 mm parts.
The center thermistor hole of my V6 onyx was a rough guide to middle, but I soon made a heat spreader out of white aluminum "coil wrap" {used to wrap wood window sills when installing vinyl or aluminum siding}.
I could have drilled a very small hole in the center of that, but it was a simple matter to draw three lines across it; X tower center to fixing screw diametrically opposite it, Y tower center to..
Z tower center to.. etc. Two would have been enough, but the third provided confirmation.
I still had a problem with gluing enough area without going way outside the part, so I drew a series of concentric circles on it with a cheap plastic compass at 25mm intervals.
You could go to all sorts of extremes with this, e.g. a square with inscribed circle at several size increments.
I stopped at 5 circles.
The center thermistor hole of my V6 onyx was a rough guide to middle, but I soon made a heat spreader out of white aluminum "coil wrap" {used to wrap wood window sills when installing vinyl or aluminum siding}.
I could have drilled a very small hole in the center of that, but it was a simple matter to draw three lines across it; X tower center to fixing screw diametrically opposite it, Y tower center to..
Z tower center to.. etc. Two would have been enough, but the third provided confirmation.
I still had a problem with gluing enough area without going way outside the part, so I drew a series of concentric circles on it with a cheap plastic compass at 25mm intervals.
You could go to all sorts of extremes with this, e.g. a square with inscribed circle at several size increments.
I stopped at 5 circles.
