The simplest ideas are always the best. Thank you.

Exactly what I need for marking out a PCD of 114.3 mm and 5 equally spaced 13mm holes without all the bs. You sir are a legend !

Beautifully narrated useful information. Thank you.

So simple and elegant. Thanks for sharing.

Lovely! No batteries to go flat when needed most, no expensive reference books, no complicated hi tech tooling....the list goes on and on. Shows we can exist without all the new age B.S. Nice one thanks for posting!

I have a beautiful set of vintage 3" Starrett dividers coming in next week.

The radius of the circle divides the circle into 6 even parts.. I was playing with my divider once and totally by accident discovered that.. I'm sure people a lot more clever than me have known this for centuries but I felt quite proud of my little own light bulb moment..

Hi Ade, love the humour and really well explained ideas in your videos, thanks so much for all the hard work, love it all, cheers, Sam

This is a great video. I have now watched several of your videos, I thought for a while that you were new to me until I stumbled back on to your 4X6 horizontal bandsaw modification vid. I had actually seen that a few months ago when I finally bought one. You do some real pretty work sir and I enjoy your easy going teaching method. I added you to my long list of subscriptions.

Where have you been all my life? I wish I had known about this simple "no math" technique. 😢❤👍

A massive thank you sir!

Excellent! Many of us newbies to home machining never had basic training in the use of simple workshop equipment like this. Regards Paul in NZ

happy to find you with this video

Thanks Ade nice simple technique just what i need being new to this hobby

Low-tech at it's best. Thanks for sharing.

Very happy to learn PCD finding with help of diveder. Thanks sir

Excellent !

Hi Ade, You don't need to do any of the tweeking, if you scribe the radius of the circle from the centre with the dividers and then chose your starting point, without adjusting the dividers they will step around the circumference exactly 6 times. Its a well known geometrical construction. If you want just 3 points then use each alternate mark.

exactly what I needed. Thanks!!

Liked your narration!

This is how I was taught when I did my time.

G'day Ade your work bench looks like mine, it's interesting you using the old callipers I have a set of DRO on the mill and lathe and I sometimes still use the old way, especially locking in measurements. Thanks for the vlog regards John

Thanks ADE, Simple explanation well done They say a tidy work space is the sign of a sick mind........mmm easy peasy lemon squeezy?? 😂 Cheers Raymond

great trick, I didn't know that one. for a 6 hole or a 3 hole, you can also set your circle radius, scribe the radius. The edges of the hexagon are the same as the radius. So just walk that around the circle. If you only want 3 holes, just drill the 3 you want. But this trick works for any number of holes I suppose~!

Good shot saves time I value the advice.

This is ultra amazing!!!!

amazing thank you

Well explained , as for your bench you must have a better compressor than mine, loved the comedy element

thank you

Genius 👌I’ll throw away my dividing machine, only wanted it for holes!

Thank you so much for the informative video. How to do the pcd marking on a larger gear wheels of 800 mm diameter. It would be really helpful if you can tell what tools can be used?

Learned a lot from this video the i hate doing the math ,

this video very informative,tq sir!!

"Have to tidy up 'round here. Now where's my airline?" And promptly blows swarf all over the place!

I love it. But not all of us have a lathe. You could have done the whole thing with the divider if you could find the center.

We learned that at school.

Are there any plans for this, i could print out? Do you have a link? Kind regards

Put back in lathe and scribe using tool, rotate job 120 degree scribe again then repeat?

Hi there, what happens if your divider dosent go back to refrence point or slightly off what do you adjust

Great video but not quite as lemon sqeezy when there are 5🤣!

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I guess this would work for 5 holes too. Don't reply, I'll just try it.

Seven holes? Five holes? Odd numbers are a bit more difficult.

Or you could just look up the chord length in Machinery's Handbook...

vẽ 6 đỉnh lục giác sao kém vậy.vẽ 6 đỉnh thì được luôn 3 đỉnh thôi

Such bad practice using your Vernier callipers as a scribe.

Anyone who can,t do that should not be in a workshop to begin with. Six year old,s can do that,it,s no big deal.