Noga Arm

 I recently came into some money, so I bought a present for my lathe. It's a professional quality articulated arm to hold a dial indicator. It's quite wonderful in that it has a magnetic base that you can turn on and off, and all the articulations are tightened up with a single knob.

It's such a pleasing piece of equipment that I didn't want to leave it in the cabinet under the lathe. Its magnet has now been attached to the bottom of a cake tin, and it holds pride of place in my kitchen as a recipe holder.

I managed to cut down the clothes peg to fit the 1/4" dovetail part of the holder, and I'm unduly proud of that as the clamp only has about 12 thou of movement between fully open and fully closed.

Richard "The Wrong Tool For the Job" B