Homemade tooth setter

[pineywoods]

I took the dial indicator off my old woodmizer setter. More trouble than it was worth. I set the mechanism up so that every tooth is bent to the maximum, and adjust the maximum to 27 thou. If I need to double check the amount of set, I use a dial caliper. Remember that dial indicator will show how much the tooth was bent, not how much remains after you release the pressure. 

[DMcCoy]

So the dial indicator is more cosmetic than useful, that is making sense to me unfortunately now that I'm mostly done, as is a dual tooth setter.

So before I rush headlong into making a grinder is there any insights you guys might have.  I was planning on a full gullet grinder.  What do you guys have and what do you do as far a sharpeneing?

[backwoods sawyer]

I ordered a pair of dial indicators today for the Cooks setter after having to down set four saws. (slow proccess)
They had gotten wet inside and froze popped apart and were not reading consistantly, set a batch of saws assuming they were reading/set correctly but they were way over set on one side.
Put them on the WM setter and down set the teeth and then back around to set. On the WM the dial does give the reading of the tooth during and after setting there is a quarter turn section of the handle when the saw is clamped and no tension on the tooth and that is where you get the after reading ;)

[woodyone.john]

Roghair,   thats one dam fine machine you have constructed.When you figure how to link the advancer to the setter I for one would sure like to see it.I suppose you wont release the interim version ,but will go straight to the motorized edition.cheers john  :D ;D 8)