Recent content by Tciplumber

I had bought a new Grizzly G4003G gunsmith lathe in January and added a DRO from DROPROS. I was extremely happy with the accuracy and performance of the lathe with one small exception. The slowest gear spindle speed is 70 RPM. That's no problem until trying to cut a coarse thread up to a...

Two suggestions... 1. ALWAYS try to incorporate a project for the gentler half that just HAS to be machined. That way, she will think we really do need these cool machines. 2. Try Electricity. Make a ground plane and a hot wire, connect a fence charger to it. Build it in such a way...

I don't know if any are "better" than the others. The quality seems to be pretty good on them nowadays. I think it comes down to tooling included and features for the price. I chose a Grizzly because it had features that fit my needs. Also, I could drive to their showroom and look at it, and...

check out DRO PROS website. I bought a mill package and a lathe package. Their website is VERY informative and accurate. they have a lot of pictures from various installs that can give you good ideas for your own. The mill package I bought was a 3 axis and it came with several generic angle...

I try to work as safely as possible. After reading some of these posts, I realized that placing tools etc behind a lathe was a really risky move! Although I had never put any storage behind the lathe, the thought did cross my mind. Now it is a "banned" area. To keep myself safe, I modified...

I just bought and set up a grizzly 4003G lathe. I was somewhat apprehensive about the quality of the product, so I drove 6 hours to inspect one in the showroom before I bought it. I know what I have is a bit larger than what you are looking at, but here is what I found: The machine was...

I added a DRO from DRO PROS to my bridgeport mill this weekend. Thought I'd show my install. The whole setup took about 10 hours and was quite enjoyable. The folks at DRO PROS helped me select the correct length scales from my particular machine. They sent a number of cast aluminum angle...

1 hand and petertha: Here are the details and some pics of the DRO install. Figured I would just add them to this post, I hope its the right place for it... Z-axis: The instructions are pretty good about describing how to set the track so that the read head won't strike the end and damage...

Thanks, I hoping I never need to cut metric threads...:rolleyes: Having read other posts, I've already decided that if the motor pukes, I'll replace it with a 3 phase motor and drive it with a VFD. That will give me variable speed in each gear range! I've already put a VFD on my bridgeport...

I'm almost overwhelmed by the interest in just one day!!! I'll try to answer what I can, I won't have time to do any real metal turning until saturday, but I promise (due to all the interest) to post findings on the accuracy we attain. The DRO install was easier than I anticipated. I will...

Just wanted to show my new toy. I just bought a grizzly 12x36 model g4003g gunsmith lathe. Spent all day saturday setting it up. I also installed a DRO PROS readout on the z and x axis while it was easy to access the back side of the lathe. Can't offer much review on the products yet...