Ickey Ball??? 1

[johnr]

Back in my toolmaking days, when we had the head of the CNC m/c swung around at an angle, we used to align the spindle to a tooling hole using something I thought was called an "Ickey Ball". It is basically a ball on the end of a dowel with a shoulder, the ball was therefore aligned to the hole and the shoulder maintained the ball a set distance from the face of the tool. Then you could clock-up the ball with the m/c head at an angle. I now need to find an "Ickey Ball". Have I spelt it right? Where can I find one to buy???

 

[jbel]

I think you are looking for what Carr-Lane calls 'Construction Balls'.

Check

http://www.carrlane.com/Catalog/ind...10D020609090C0015480013180B041D1E173C1B085355

 

[finman]

I to, know these things as Ickey balls and most of the older toolmakers that I work with all call them the same, based in the UK we get ours from a company called WDS see there site

http://www.wdsltd.co.uk.

but they call 'em "Ball reference pins"