{"id":29775,"date":"2017-10-07T10:21:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T17:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=29775"},"modified":"2017-10-07T10:21:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T17:21:22","slug":"plastic-center-finder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/plastic-center-finder\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Center Finder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Cool Tools has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/cooltools\">YouTube channel with many more tool reviews<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I learned about this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000CD1T0A\/ctmakerupdate-20\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=ctmakerupdate-20&#038;linkId=77df9af41364fecce51321e9c77fe75d\">plastic center finder<\/a> from maker Ben Light, who uses it to drill out the center in the tin can robots he builds. Online, I see a lot of videos of jewelry designers using these. Woodworkers use them on finding centers on dowels or centering up work to chuck into a lathe.<\/p>\n<p>They also work for finding the center of squares. Using the side with the 90-degree angle you can mark out the center of a square. This is especially useful on smaller material (like small tiles where a speed square isn\u2019t as helpful.<\/p>\n<p>The smaller, 60-degree angle on one side of the tool is intended for use finding the center of hexagon shaped material. I\u2019ve yet to come across any hexagons I need centered, but I can imagine it being useful around a geodesic dome build.<\/p>\n<p>I also have to just say that this is one of those tools that I simply find aesthetically satisfying. I probably only break it out every couple months, but every time it catches my eye it makes me smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find the center of any circle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1449],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29777,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29775\/revisions\/29777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}