A Buck Saved is a Buck Earned

[Lapua40X]

Tired of bending over all day reading my beam scale and deciding that a shelf to raise it higher didn't fit my space limitations I looked for something to give me some relief. I found some prismatic tools on the market but I can buy bullets with the forty bucks they cost That's cost of the item plus shipping of course. I found a cheap acrylic prism on ebay for under $8 and spent about an hour in the shop to make this little tool. The acrylic prism was long enough to cut in half (band saw) and make two of these.
Two little compression springs from the junk box, a couple of washers and pieces of scrap Corian. No more bending.

 

[Preacher]

Where there's a will, there's a way........
Good job.........

 

[280shooter]

That looks neat you better get a patent.

 

[BoydAllen]

Old school....why buy it when you can make it? Thanks for sharing.
Boyd

 

[navyrad8r]

http://www.omegapowdertrickler.com/
scroll down the page.. i think these guy already patended it??
nice job though i like it.
cheers,
doc

 

[BigDMT]

Nice. Seen a lot of guys using video cameras with monitors too.

Of course that's not as cheap or as handy as your little prism

 

[Outrider27]

Another trick I saw used was a mirror and the webcam on a laptop computer - the beam pointer was read off the laptop screen. If you don't have a laptop computer, or room on your loading bench for one, this is a really elegant solution. Of course, I think any solution that costs under $10 while eliminating an annoyance like reading a beam pointer way below eye level is elegant.

 

[Lapua40X]

That looks neat you better get a patent.

Too late. Somebody known as "Dandy Products LLC" already has a nice little one the market. I believe Midway USA carries it. But, with shipping, it's over $40. Like I said, the price difference to me is a box of quality bullets. ;D Besides, making this stuff is a lot of fun on rainy days when I can't go out and shoot anyway.
Next project = Carbide lamp for blackening front sights.

 

[A j shooter]

Any locals sell acrylic prism like hobby lobby , michaels .

 

[gotcha]

40X, Nice going! American ingenuity at it's best. Now I've GOTTA make one too.

 

[gotcha]

AJshooter, Not local but try "science lab supply" 3 prizms = $14.50

 

[A j shooter]

Thanks

 

[normmatzen]

I bought one of the commercially available prisms.

I did so because in all my wife's wisdom, she reminds me that when I am consulting for some one, I charge a minimum of $125 per hour. So, If I fiddle on a project in the shop for one hour, I have "spent" $125!
Right now, on a Sunday, I am doing some intensive SPICE simulation of an integrated circuit and getting paid for it. This note I am writing is costing me $125 so, BYE!

 

[BigDMT]

I bought one of the commercially available prisms.

I did so because in all my wife's wisdom, she reminds me that when I am consulting for some one, I charge a minimum of $125 per hour. So, If I fiddle on a project in the shop for one hour, I have "spent" $125!
Right now, on a Sunday, I am doing some intensive SPICE simulation of an integrated circuit and getting paid for it. This note I am writing is costing me $125 so, BYE!

So according to your post count of 235 posts, and considering each one cost you roughly $125, you've lost $29,375 on talking with members of this site?

That's a lot of money to BS with folks, maybe if you have that much money to waste, you could donate some of it to the website

 

[fr3db3ar]

Good job on the home project. I opted for the $6 webcam for my laptop. It was a good investment.