In this Question Line video, Jason answers the following question submitted through our new GD&T Questions submission page:
Your video mentions a polar probe or a TIR checker. It’d be cool if you included slightly more details on those types of tests to educate people.
This question was in response to a recent video about the issues inherent with measuring runout and circularity using V-Blocks. In the video below, Jason gives a high-level overview of how polar probes and TIR checkers are used to inspect circularity or cylindricity.
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