Talk:Wiggler (tool)

centre finder redirects here. However, this is far from the only type and information on these is pretty scarce. It would be nice if this was augmented or another article was available that wasn't about the very specialised wiggler.

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When a postdoctoral engineer (albeit certainly not a Mech-E) can't understand a shop tool article, it needs more work. Tagging as unclear. Tofof (talk) 15:42, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Most of these are not wigglers, this article is problematic

This article is…not good. Although there is considerable variation in the definition of all of these terms and there are also a lot of confused people who have learned the wrong names for things (possibly from this article…I came here after someone cited this article for something it cannot support), generally speaking a wiggler is a sort of edge finder that is now quite rarely used (with a sharp point, and illustrated in the Set of Wigglers illustration, although poorly because you are looking at the pieces inside an opaque package, not assembled), and most edge finders are not wigglers. Electronic edge finders are certainly not wigglers, and neither are center-finders or centering devices. I tend to think this article should be renamed "Edge finder," but even then, center finders and other centering devices are not edge finders.

I'm not sure what the broader term might be…workpiece/spindle alignment devices? I just made that up, it's not a formal term.

I think most of the tool-specific sections of this article are…okay. But the edge finder section, which is surely the most important of these tools, attempts to explain in text what is best shown visually, and the I suspect no one who is not familiar with the tool would properly understand its usage from the description given.

I don't know what to do about these problems. jhawkinson (talk) 03:29, 30 April 2025 (UTC)