Can someone explain what is the difference between this and the other standard stylus module (puck)? I’ve attached a picture. I was told this one can hold longer probes?
Never heard of this type of puck being able to told long probes. My biggest & longest probes are attached to the standard (M3 thread) pucks. The one on the pic I use this type of puck for star probes because you can square the star with this setup.
Hexagon confusing nonsense is on display again. Rotatable likely means you can rotate to square a star probe & tighten the knurled nut to lock the whole thing in place. That is what I did when building star probe setups. Made them square to the machine's x or y axes & tightened the nut to hold them in place.
When using a hexagon 5-way adaptor (free spinning until tightened) I would thread some bolts into my table to hold a bar in place square to the X axis. Then place two 1-2-3 blocks against that, loosely assemble the probe and jog it over the blocks to square the tips up, then tighten it all down. Normally there was a bit of extra rotation from snugging it all down. I would just see how much it moved and then repeat the process eyeballing in that amount of anti-rotation. Once you have done it a few times you can normally get it on the second try every time.
When using a hexagon 5-way adaptor (free spinning until tightened) I would thread some bolts into my table to hold a bar in place square to the X axis. Then place two 1-2-3 blocks against that, loosely assemble the probe and jog it over the blocks to square the tips up, then tighten it all down. Normally there was a bit of extra rotation from snugging it all down. I would just see how much it moved and then repeat the process eyeballing in that amount of anti-rotation. Once you have done it a few times you can normally get it on the second try every time.
