Thread: Veritas micro-adjust wheel marking gauge

Welcome Broydrick,

Don't think I can tell if there is a problem with your particular gauge or not, but I do tighten the screw pretty darn snug.

If after tightening it rather good and tight it still happens, my guess is that yours is "defective." Myself, I would use a small drop of non-hardening LocTite and be done with it, but you can return it as well.

Take care, Mike

I've got three of these (though the non-micro-adjustable variety), and never had a problem with the cutter coming loose. Try tightening the screw some more, and if you still have a problem, try contacting Lee Valley for advice.

Originally Posted by Broydrick

Am I just not tightening the screw tight enough or could this be a design fault?

I guess that it's both. I have experienced the same problem with both the micro adjustable and the regualr gauges. It is more severe with the micro adjustables. Just tightent the screw as hard as you can, and a little bit more.

If you don't have loc-tite, then you can used boiled linseed oil, PVA, blu-tac, Gorilla snot (the sticky gunk they use to stick 'free' things to magazines). Basically anything that is gluggy & non-hardening, or, like PVA, just fills up the space in the threads but doesn't actually glue to metal. Oh, and PVA may make the iron work rust

Thanks very much guys. I will have another go at tightening the screw real hard and take it from there.