Simple Center Finder Tool for the Shop

Welcome to the papaya work

shop

for a long time. I wanted to make a

center

search engine. This is a very

simple

tool

that helps find the

center

of any circle and I have long used quick squares to frame squares of all sorts of different shapes. to be able to find this Hub, today I created this very

simple

tool

to be able to do it and it will be a good addition to the store, so let's start today. I want to show you how I did it now that I've been I've been wanting to make a center

finder

so I can find the center of circles for quite some time so I decided to do it today and it's actually very simple and all I'm going to do is open a new window and the easel. and I'm going to click on the rectangular box above and I'm going to reshape this now.

Well, now I have the first one that is one inch wide and six inches long. I'm going to press Ctrl-c and Ctrl-v and I'm going to do that twice because I'm going to need three of them now. The next thing I'm going to do is place that one down here, for now I'll grab the second one and rotate it 90 degrees. Once that's done, we're going to slide it down to this position and I want this to be five inches long, not six, and the reason is that when they come together it's going to be six inches in this direction and it's going to be six inches in this direction so I can to join it is exactly where I want to do it.

I'm going to go back to this first and I'm going to use this point here and place it exactly at this point, so to do that we're going to go up. here and select the bottom right corner and I'm going to put the y coordinates on the x axis which will be two and then on the y axis which will be one now position that exactly here now I want this to come here and put this exactly here, like this that to do the same thing I need to select my point and I need to have my x axis at two and my y axis at 1 and that puts it exactly where it needs to be. be like that, that's a very precise way to be able to do it and what to do, go ahead and combine this, so now this is a unit, so that's what I wanted to be able to do, the next thing I want to do to be able to do It's very simple, since I'm going to rotate this 45 degrees and then I'm going to place it where this axis is exactly at 5 so I can do that.

The easiest way to do it since I rotated it is: I'm just going to select the center because that's going to give it right on that center axis and I'm going to select on my x axis for 5 and that's really all I need to do, now it's located exactly in line with this so now I want to take this one and slide it and place it in the position where I want that position down where along this line will be at the 5 so I'm going to select my bottom right corner and I want to be able to select on the x 5 axis to move it exactly about where it needs to be, so that it's now my perfect 45 degree angle and it's directly along this axis.

The next thing I want to do before we continue Also, I want to do Ctrl V one more time with one more piece and I'll show you that in a second, but in the meantime, let's go ahead and combine all of this, so I've highlighted everything, select combined and now this. it's all one unit the next thing I want to do is cut this on the outside so I'm going to go ahead and select cut and I want to be able to cut it on the outside so there we have the basic parameter for my center

finder

now I'm going to rotate it back and place this piece, but one thing I want: I don't want it to be in this position, so I want to develop the habit of it being cut at a 45 degree angle.

The easiest way to get to a 45 degree angle here is to create another box, so bring it over here and we're going to rotate that box 45 degrees and we're going to set the cutting depth to zero and then we're going to slide it over there. and we'll combine this together and that will make my 45 degree piece that I need like this now since we're moving, I want to build a feed and put this back exactly where it needs to be. I'm going to put this back on my five again, so I'm going to put this in the center.

I'm going to put this on my five and that's really the only thing I care about right now is my x axis and then I'm going to take this piece and I want to slide it here and again. I'm going to put this on this side. I want to add five and now it's exactly where it needs to be. From there I want To change the depth of this, I want to be able to cut this an eighth of an inch down, so it's at 0.125 and I want this part to cut the entire depth and rise up - this is a quarter of an inch. so there's my center finder, the next thing I want to do is take this and rotate it.

I can grab it, rotate it, and actually the easiest way is to go ahead and type this at 315 degrees and now it's there. exactly where it needs to be so let's take this and slide it down now this is almost right up to that point the way the cutouts are I think what I'm going to do is extend this a little bit more to that point and I think that's going to be good and if you look at the preview here, let's zoom in and it looks great, okay, there are my four tabs. I'm going to leave that one right there, it's a good place, this is a good place, but this.

Right down in the corner it's not there, so I need to be able to select that tab and I'll just slide it over here and we'll put it in this position, so now we're ready to be able to carve. I went ahead and just secured this scrap piece now on this on the computer, it was eight by eight and this is bigger than that, it doesn't really matter, it's actually nine inches by, oh God, over two feet long, actually over three feet long, like me. he said it doesn't matter because I'm going to cut right in this area to my starting XY position.

I'm going to leave it here in the corner, but I'm actually going to put it somewhere nearby again. It doesn't really matter because I have more material than I need, so let's go ahead and carve this. I'm using the zero point X Y here and this is about an inch from the bottom and about a half inch from the other side again. This doesn't have to be exactly now. I'm using a sixteenth of an inch bit up to be able to carve this now, frankly I could have used an eighth of an inch bit, but the sixteenth was in the machine and I just left it.

Now I'm carving this at eighty inches a minute and it's cutting very, very smoothly and, frankly, it's doing an excellent job. I want to show a close up of this bit cutting into the pocket and if you look closely that pocket is completely clean with no lines at all, this is I don't even need to stand it now that the carving is done. I can use the advance machine commands and just get it out of the way, now it's time to remove the project from the table and Actually, the only thing I'll have to do is just cut the tabs and release them from the scrap board and then from there, but maybe just a little bit of light sanding on the edge and the project will be done and you I can see just brushing it off to remove the sawdust and it looks really great.

Now it's a very simple tool, it just consists of a 90 degree angle with the 45 degrees here and it's made on the back so that it has a notch and fits well. where the circle is and that allows you to create a mark in the center every time, so it's very, very simple and easy to do. I made this one on a CNC machine, but you can certainly do it with a jigsaw and just a few simple layout tools so I can do it now I went ahead and put this rod in the vise so I can have two hands free because I want to show you this device really simple that it's made so that the circle that you're The measurement slides right here and it has this recessed base, so when you turn it over to the right side and push it into the corner, this 45 degree line marks exactly where the center and then you just turn it. slide it to the corner again and mark it to get the exact center.

If you want to check it yourself, you can slide it again and you can check it and you can see that it will be the dead spot every time this happens. A great tool is fantastic to be able to use as a turner to find the center and can be used for all kinds of different things anytime you need to find the center of a circle. This is the tool I am going to use. because I decided to go ahead and use the J Tech photonic laser and engrave my logo on this center finder because it will be an integral part of the store, it will be a very useful tool and I wanted to be able to put the logo and to do that I simply opened the engraving software of light and took out the logo that I used before.

I had to make it a little smaller, but that wasn't a big deal. Hello everyone, thanks for watching. my video today, if you liked the video, go ahead and hit the subscribe button below and the little bell next to it so you can receive notifications about the different videos that I upload. Also watch the videos here so you can stay. updated on what's happening in my store so thanks again for watching my videos