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275113 cowtown_eric <ecoyle@t...> 2022‑01‑19 electric winding strips
On one of the sat night Zoom oldtools meet ups, I mentioned electric winding
strips that I had made to cope with older eyesight.

so here's 3 pix of it in action
https://www.flickr.com/photos/183694571@N.../51830053515/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/183694571@N.../51828377857/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/183694571@N.../51828375847/in/dateposted-public/

The unfortunate camera was unable to focus on both straight-edge and illuminated
strip- 10' apart.

The need for this arose a few years back trying to align a dining table  with
three  leafs inserted, and it worked well, so it got pressed into action again
today.But I still could focus.

I know it's an 'lectron burner, but as eyesight ages, one is forced to used
optical crutches!.

I shall try and find the spittoon in the morass of tools

Interestingly, the makerspace I participate in has a 5x10' CNC router and I was
chastised for not using it to level the table, and I was politely chastised for
not using it, but it's only recently been put into commission and I have watched
several folks encounter FU's in operation, so my risk management sense said..
can't afford a single F/U to destroy the surface and turn 500$ of maple itno
trash- so it's hard core hand flattening- and my back feels it. That much maple
weighs about 200#

Eric
275117 Kirk Eppler 2022‑01‑19 Re: electric winding strips
Ok, so I see an array of horizontal lighted lines, and assume you line up
your fixed edge against the lighted lines.

The real question is, how are you creating the lighted lines?

Kirk in Half Moon Bay, not fully off vacation brain just yet.

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 7:11 PM cowtown_eric  wrote:

> On one of the sat night Zoom oldtools meet ups, I mentioned electric
> winding strips that I had made to cope with older eyesight.
>
> so here's 3 pix of it in action
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/183694571@N.../51830053515/in/dateposted-public/
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/183694571@N.../51828377857/in/dateposted-public/
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/183694571@N.../51828375847/in/dateposted-public/
>
>
> --
Sent from my iPad, apologies for the Auto Correct errors. Kirk
275118 Erik Levin 2022‑01‑19 Re: electric winding strips
I never thought of that. Very nice. The glass looks familiar. Can you elaborate?

I do have a set of matched straightedge levels with scotchlite paint on one side
for dark-space alignment work. They'd probably work as winding sticks this way
with a light source right behind my head.


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275130 cowtown_eric <ecoyle@t...> 2022‑01‑21 Re: electric winding strips
The glass is plexiglass, the lines are simply scratched carefully on the
surface, and a strip of leds shines through  a "flamed'  clear bottom edge
and hit the scratches and light them up.

eric

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