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Thx, MagBen and Wrenchbender , that's good info.

FYI, gear ties are magnetic so steel wire inside, most likely , lol. I'm guessing annealed low carbon steel wire.

..."non exotic flexible wire, good ductility and fatigue life , low work hardening. Something like the wire inside Nite Ize brand gear ties. Similar application."

Please suggest a non exotic flexible wire, good ductility and fatigue life , low work hardening. Something like the wire inside Nite Ize brand gear ties. Similar application. Imagining something in the range of 1/8" diameter, not critical. Used to temporarily grasp light objects of irregular...

3/8" That's good to hear, cool thing is ; I can get one locally to test...thanks for the help. I'll share what I find.

itsmoked : no access for that kind of sensor, stock is inside a revolving tube. . stock feeds axially relative to the outside tube .."let's stick to the idea of non contact measurement from the far end of the tube, because it has advantages for me"

3DDave... I was going to pick up one of those Bosch rangefinders today...I am wondering though, how far away from the transmitter, the receiving sensor is..(laterally) because my window is small....

Hi I have a CNC lathe type machine with an outboard tube support, that supports 1/2" square aluminum stock into the lathe spindle. Currently I have my code set to do a number of parts machining loops based on the stock length. I am considering a non-counting method instead by measuring how...