Getting a Star probe square to your machine

First, you need to have your star square to the machine.
What I do is place a 123 block on my plate.
I have a Rayco plate so it is easy to get that square.
When I put the star in I eyeball it square to the block.
Your dual calsphere needs to be pretty square to the machine also.
Next, I calibrate each tip individually, starting with #1.
It might take a few tries, but it'll work.
Here are a couple of pics of how I do it.

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DonLaDue over 11 years ago

New question about calibration of a star probe: I have a 3 tip "star probe" I have been using routinely for years. All of a sudden one of the tips (tip 3) won't calibrate because the magnetic coupling of our tp200 crashes into the sphere after the 4th of 9 hits. I have used this probe many many times and I basically don't know what changed to cause this issue. Watching the machine in action, it does appear the tip is going just a bit too deep into the sphere. What parameter can you just to keep the ball from going too deep?

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DonLaDue over 11 years ago

New question about calibration of a star probe: I have a 3 tip "star probe" I have been using routinely for years. All of a sudden one of the tips (tip 3) won't calibrate because the magnetic coupling of our tp200 crashes into the sphere after the 4th of 9 hits. I have used this probe many many times and I basically don't know what changed to cause this issue. Watching the machine in action, it does appear the tip is going just a bit too deep into the sphere. What parameter can you just to keep the ball from going too deep?

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