Mill Drill Igaging Dro Install Notes

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ieezitin:
Ah… VTsteam… the shaper is an Atlas and the vise too.. it’s a dream, the key to machining its potential is the vise on a shaper, its low profile is everything.

Jonny… got ya on the reverse of the angle, I thought about it but went the way I did, I just thought it would be just as easy to make a stop from the horizontal top in the future than to worry about engineering the bracket the other way. I have a feeling the slide or scale will be damaged by dirt and oil but I will remedy this as best I can only time will tell.
I am not going to cut the X axis down I will live with it the way it is. Your right the cabling is flimsy and I am going to protect it with that flexi-shell stuff you can buy at an auto store, the one with a split in it, I realized by doing this the wires need to be protected as best as possible.

The bracket hardware is trash, the holes don’t really meet up and are not sufficient for the job, I am using them just to get going as I can spend time in the future making sturdier brackets, I have found through this install that alignment is key, whoever wants to do this work will need to pay attention to alignment, when the slide and reader move it needs to be in a straight line and no bowing allowed, by making my brackets I allowed movement in the holes so you can position the unit so to limit the distortion while the reader is sliding down the slide rail. The 0.14 thou has been noted, thanks.

More piccies tomorrow :beer:

Anthony.

tom osselton:
Actually the quill wasn't that bad it was the y that seemed harder.

vtsteam:

--- Quote from: ieezitin on June 01, 2014, 08:25:53 PM ---Ah… VTsteam… the shaper is an Atlas and the vise too.. it’s a dream, the key to machining its potential is the vise on a shaper, its low profile is everything.

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Anthony, I'm going to have to make one. :loco:

So glad I waited to mount the mill DRO. This thread will really help. :coffee:

:nrocks:

tom osselton:

--- Quote from: ieezitin on June 01, 2014, 07:43:20 PM ---Tom..

that would be cool..... im understanding its the quill feed to be the hardest... not as easy as it looks..

Anthony..

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Well this is the original face and the slide it came with

As you can see there is lots of room under the cover I milled a slot for the sliding bar that fit in the existing hole for the previous scale keeping it as long as possible to make sure there was enough in the down position.

I fitted a plate using the existing holes and cut out the center portion leaving maybe 1/8 inch overhang for support although it doesn't touch, the screws are counterbored so the new faceplate will lay flat.

This shows the riser from the slide and the new faceplate as you can see there is no screws holding the scale I can thank " DroPro's " for that, when fitting everything together use 3m outdoor doublesided tape it works great and saves a lot of time 1" on each end holds great.

And a shot put together there was only one problem here, when I put the crossbar in place it sloped inward, I never thought to check the slide bar to see if it was parallel with the faceplate so the riser was removed and was ground to fit with my new grinder :D all that remains to do now is paint and mount the scale.

I got this a couple months ago thinking mill bit sharpening

All in all it wasn't that bad a build.

Arbalist:
I can't square the circle with DRO's for my VMC. :( I don't want to loose the stops but fitting the scales at the back looses a little travel. Glass scales are cheap but break easily from what I've heard. Magnetic scales are tough as old boots but cost more and can't be used with cheap read outs. Another thing that irks a bit is that the nice displays can cost nearly £300 and only well, "display"!
I can buy a tablet for a quarter of that price and it does everything bar make the tea ... :D
I'm sure when something really cheap and easily installed that doesn't eat batteries comes out I'll be the last to know ... :)

Good luck with the installation. With any luck I'll gain enough information to get into gear myself at some point!

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