Mill Drill Igaging Dro Install Notes

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vtsteam:
That cover was nicely made! Clean sheet metal work -- dresses up the mill, in my opinion, :thumbup:

Jonny:

--- Quote from: ieezitin on June 06, 2014, 08:01:36 PM ---The quill needs looking at. on this machine it has a slight twist or rotation because of slack in the headstock
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They all do and what I said earlier with the grub screw riding in the slot.

Is the brass a new depth stop or mounting for scale, if so you always have movement. Far better off the bottom aluminium quill plate.

ieezitin:
VTSteam

Thank you for the compliment..

Jonny..

not sure where the set screw is any pointers..... and what do you mean with better off the bottom aluminium quill plate?

Note: the pdf file containing the manual for the machine is a little useless.. :(

Thanks..

Anthony.

ieezitin:
Well....

I got started on the Quill install, my attachment that's sitting on the stainless rod, when it gets to the bottom it interferes with the head casting so i had to mill off the corners for it to seat right, could have filed it but decided to get the shaper into action.

After i milled the edges down here it is protruding through the face plate, its all free from touching the face plate and the internal casting.

next was to install the fixing hardware for the bracket that holds the scale, i could have welded nuts through on the back but i took a chance on tapping the 16 gage stainless 8-32 and installing a thumb screw with lock washer and washer from the back for the thread to accept an knurled head nut to lock it down from the front. It worked.

Next was to install what i have, this done i drilled and slotted the aluminium angle with the positioning of the scale to be flexible, i tight drilled the top screw and the lower milled a slot so i could swing the bracket over to align it parallel to the quill moving up and down,

this all done i stuck an indicator to check for parallel. Results were .002 over 6'' distance.

All well that ends well.

I still think a " hard rain is gonna fall "..

Thanks.

Anthony.

Noitoen:
Hi,

I've installed the same scales to my mill and was a huge help in the machining process. One thing I found that, sometimes, randomly, the scales would reset their values due to electrical noise. One big culprit would be my fluorescent work lamp on/off switch.
I upgraded the system to the wi-fi android project and the problem would persist. I then replaced the cables with a 4 core individual screened cable, soldered directly to the scales pcb (there are pads for this purpose), shielded the scale's plastic box with some aluminium tape and now they work fine.

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