Angle Measurement
Angle Measurement
Angle Measurement
Angular
Measurement
Unit 13
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Objectives
Make angular measurements to an accuracy
of 5' (minutes) of a degree using a universal
bevel protractor
Make angular measurements to less than 5'
of a degree using a sine bar, gage blocks,
and a dial indicator
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Angular Measurement
Important phase of machine shop work
Most common tools
Universal bevel protractor
Sine bar
Sine plate
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Universal Bevel
Protractor
Precision angles
to within 5'
(0.083)
Consist of base
Vernier scale
Protractor dial
Sliding blade
Dial clamp nut
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Vernier Protractor
Used to measure obtuse angle (90-180)
Acute-angle attachment fastened to
protractor to measure angles less than 90
Main scale divided into
two arcs of 180
Scale divided into 12
spaces on each side of 0
If zero on vernier scale
coincides with line on
main: reading in degrees
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Sine Bars
Used when accuracy of angle must be
checked to less than
Consists of steel bar with two cylinders of
equal diameter fastened near ends
Centers of cylinders exactly 90 to edge of bar
Distance between centers usually 5 or 10 in.
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Sine Bars
Used on surface plates and any angle by
raising one end of bar with gage blocks
Made 5 in. or in multiples of 5 in.
Lapped cylinders with 5 in. .0002
or 10 in. .00025 between centers
Face accurate to within .00005 in.
in 5 inches
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Sine Bars
Hypotenuse of a right-angle triangle
Gage block buildup forms side opposite
Face of surface plate forms side adjacent
side opposite
hypotenuse
gage block buildup buildup
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Example
Calculate the gage block buildup required to set
a 5 in. sine bar to an angle of 30
buildup 5 X sine of required angle
buildup = 5 (sin 30)
= 5(.5000)
= 2.5000 in.
Note: This formula applied only to angles up to 60 .
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Sine Bars
Angles > 60
Better to set up work using complement of
angle
Angle plate turned 90 to produce correct angle
When sine bar in near-horizontal position, small
change in height of buildup will produce smaller
change in angle than near-vertical position
Small angles
Sometimes impossible to get buildup small
enough to place under one end of sine bar
Place gage blocks under both rolls of sine bar
Net difference in measurement equal to required
buildup
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1.000
B
12.000
1
a 2
.04166 24610
In right triangle, ABD: Tan
2 12
a 44620
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1
tpf tan a X 24
2
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C
1.750
1.000
3.187
1.750 1.000
If the tpf is
AC
.375
2
not known,
the angle may tan a .375 .11766 64222 a 132444
2 3.187
be calculated
Buildup 5 sin 132444 .23196)
as follows:
1.1598 in.
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Tapers
Metric tapers expressed as ratio of 1 mm
per unit of length
Ratio of 1:20 means would taper 1 mm in
diameter in 20 mm of length
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Sine Plate
Based on same principle as sine bar
Similar in construction except it is wider
Sine bars up to 1 in. wide
Sine plates generally more than 2 in. wide
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Sine Table
Sine plate hinged to a base
Both sine plate and table
Supplied in 5 and 10 in. lengths
Have step or groove of .100 or .200 deep
ground in base to permit buildup for small
angles to be placed under free roll
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