My probe stylus is tilted by about .006, I completely pulled it apart and it looks like the threads it screws into aren’t perfectly plumb. I can adjust runout so the ball is perfectly centered to the spindle, but having tilt in the stylus seems not ideal to me, but I don’t know for sure if it’s a problem. The screws on the bottom don’t seem to adjust the tilt, is there a way to adjust that? Or is a few thou tilt not a problem if the ball is centered?
Tilt in the stylus is irrevelvant- only thing that matters is that the runout of the ruby is as low as possible.
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Take it apart and cut the stainless washer that holds the wire to the proble itself. The washer is getting hung up in the spring. I cut off a flatspot on the washer so it doesn’t touch the spring. I also stretched the spring out just a little to give it more pressure.
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Thanks for the tip, I did check that, and langmuir had already cut my washer.
ok, good to hear, thanks.