I have a dough sheeter, which has two adjustable rollers for establishing the thickness of a sheet of dough. There are no measurement indicators on the machine, so I am looking for a gauge to jam in between the rollers to measure their separation, i.e. the thickness of the resulting dough sheet.
Something like the old spark plug gap setting jam gauge, I suppose.
Any ideas?
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Feeler gauges, vernier calipers, wooden blocks, paint marks for most used settings...
calipers won't fit, but darned if I forgot all about feeler gauges! thanks.
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I'm presuming these aren't precision measurements nor particularly thin...what about a few plexiglass shims or the like? I'd think 1/32" would be more than enough discrimination...what's the desired range?
zero to 0.25 inches. I haven't figured out exactly what I want to go construct anything yet, but feeler gauges might be a good start (though perhaps a clumsy start, if I need to add a couple together).
Take a look at this set of long feeler gauges.
yikes - expensive. Actually regular feeler gauges will be long enough, and if I combine two, three, or four thicknesses I can get most anything. if I zero in on a particular thickness that is the cat's meow, I can make a dedicated gauge from wood, plastic, etc.
The same link has shorter gauges for much less. It sounded like you were using these for an industrial application.
oooh! this is what I was thinking of!
That should give you a relative measurement but probably not an accurate measurement of the gap between two cylindrical rollers. I think feeler gauges would be a better choice.
Is this for a commercial / industrial application or is this for home use? If home use, then I doubt it would make a big difference.
home use, with a dough sheeter. This will be close enough - repeatably is more important than precision.
Yeah, then you can use anything. I thought you were involved with a commercial bakery producing croissants or a food manufacturer making something like pastry dough or pasta.
Allen wrenches?
I will be doing all of that. But not every day, so I want to figure something out, take notes, and go back to it again in a couple months without having to re-invent the wheel.
Hotel key cards (and similar cards) measure in at 1/32". I save all of mine. They may good spreaders, shims, etc.
Since they're plastic, they would be easy for you to keep clean considering they are being used on a food related appliance.
good idea. thanks.
That's what precision is, ITYM it is more important than 'accuracy'.
right you are.
Micrometers? Long feeler gauges? What fits!? What's the cost?
Have you tried putting a piece of dough thru the machine and roughly measuring the dough?
(I thought this woulda been the obvious answer, but I guess not ;)
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measuring the dough would not help in resetting the rollers next time, without guesswork.
Feeler gauge would be the best answer, or the tapered gauge I posted earlier. I have one on order and will see how it works in this application.
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