Uploaded July 2017 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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This is essentially a follow up to my "Poor man's surface roughness tester Part 1" which i posted sometimes last year.
It happened that this Taylor Hobson Surtronic 2 unit came to me for very little money, but with no surface sensor.
It has some issues, but we going through the repair to get it back to working order.
It will save me at least the trouble of building a traverse unit.
The idea is using a turntable pick up unit as described in part 1.
This episode only covers the tear down and some of the repair of the Taylor Hobson unit.
Next part will be re-assembly and first tests and calibration with my sensor idea.

These units are used for classification of a surface quality, usually on machined or ground metal surfaces. Some manufactures call these Profilometer.

Part 1 is here
youtu.be/XvtJfKP7aMk

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