Barry I would like to point out a few things to watch out for in considering the clamping of the top of the minimill column to the wall. The minimill column is...
So inspired by Rick, I bought a digital machine scale from Wholesale Tools and mounted it on my Z axis. I was curious tonight and used a dial indicator to see...
Either something inside the scale is loose or your brackets are flexing. I have the same type scales ( from Cal Aero ) in my X, Y & Z axes there is NO ERROR at...
The scale appears to be pretty solid. No moving parts inside that I can find. I would say I can flex the top bracket if I really try, but I had the indicator...
So far as linear measurement goes, mine seems spot on what the dial indicator shows. It's just when going back the other way that 8 thou or so are suddenly...
Thank you Norman: What I had in mind was welding a 3" H beam to the 3/4 thick plate that I have my minimill bolted to to make an L shaped support. Then bolt...
Next thing I tried was to clamp the bracket I made for the sensor in a vise on the table of my mill, then used a clamp on the other end to a solid point on the...
Hi, I'm new to this group. I searched to see if anyone had used digital calipers as DROs for their minimill and came up pretty much blank. Has anyone in this...
I have seen photographs somewhere on the net of a mini mill with a caliper used as a vertical (Z axis) DRO. Problem is I cannot find it again. I think it was...
On page 52 of the Sept/Oct 2001 issue of Homs Shop Machinist, there was an article on using digital calipers as scales for a DRO on a Mill/Drill Though the...
This is probably not the one you were talking about, but it is of using a digital scale on the Z-axis. Go to the bottom of the directory listing and click on...
Yes, I've been following the DRO dialogs, but I haven't really found much specific to using calipers as DROs. Do the DROs you guys are using have digital ...
Got it. The DRO so have digital outputs, "SPC" or something like that (Statistical Process Control". I think its intended for quality control, reading a lot...
... From what I remember, the interface was simple, one or two chips, I think it might have been ascii formatted data, 9600 baud, I do remember that it was...
Thanks. I just found this link on the CAD-CAM-EDM-DRO group. Does anyone have any experience with these DROs? These look quite inexpensive. ... that ... ...
These are the ones we have been talking about, just different distributors I think. Wholesale Tools, CalAero, Shars, others. The link to my directory, in an...
Opps. Silly me. I thought I had gone to all of the links you guys had posted for vendors. I must have missed that one. You guys are right, these would be ...
I just received my Harbor Freight Mini Mill. I placed the order 3/15, they said it was back ordered until 3/22. It shipped 3/25, and I received it 4/4. Came in...
So I have been using my recently obtained rotary table more and more, but I still have yet to have it quite figured out. I bought the 6" horizontal that LMS...
I, too would be interested in some hints here. I think the problem really is just getting both the pivot point for the RT and then the the point on the work...
I see three different objectives and three different solutions. 1 - you just want to prove that you can machine a bull nose with the RT and other equipment you...
I can make a pretty good bullnose using a sander. But that's not what I asked. :) It is a hobby, but then what isn't? I make real things used for real...
Aligning the work to the spindle seems a lot easier than aligning it to the table, so far as I can tell. What would make this simple is a self-centering chuck...
I heard that you have to take the grizly mill apart when you receive it and clean off the "gunk" since its not really a lube but more as a preservative. What...
Ed, I've never tried to do what you are doing, but suspect as you do that the problem is the manual layout. In my experience, it's better to let the machine...
