Hi
I've just spent the afternoon gainfully occupied fitting a DRO to my mill. Ive had the DRO's for about a year and finally got round to fitting one of them to the longtidudinal travel. My mill is a Sieg super X1L (in the colours of Axminster Power Tools) and has the optionanal long table fitted The main reason for doing this is my lathe (a Myford ML7) is imperial and the mill is metric. It gets a bit awkward when transfering parts from lathe to mill. Converting from imperial to metric and back again doesn't always work accurately and it's too easy to make a mistake. The DRO will switch between imperial and metric. Although I only fitted it this afternoon I can already see a huge benefit. Below are a few photos of how I did it. they should be fairly self explanatory but if anybody wants to know more just ask.
The brackets are made of 3mm steel.
And are fixed to the underside of the table with 4mm countersunk screws.
The table fitted back on the mill.
The DRO fitted to the brackets with 2 4mm screws.
The sliding part of the DRO is fixed to the cross slide with a 4mm screw.
I haven't figured out yet how to fix the DRO to the cross slide. Theres not a lot of room underneath and is of course obscured by the longtitudinal table. Has anyone out there carried out his mod and if so how did you do it?
Cheers
I've just spent the afternoon gainfully occupied fitting a DRO to my mill. Ive had the DRO's for about a year and finally got round to fitting one of them to the longtidudinal travel. My mill is a Sieg super X1L (in the colours of Axminster Power Tools) and has the optionanal long table fitted The main reason for doing this is my lathe (a Myford ML7) is imperial and the mill is metric. It gets a bit awkward when transfering parts from lathe to mill. Converting from imperial to metric and back again doesn't always work accurately and it's too easy to make a mistake. The DRO will switch between imperial and metric. Although I only fitted it this afternoon I can already see a huge benefit. Below are a few photos of how I did it. they should be fairly self explanatory but if anybody wants to know more just ask.
The brackets are made of 3mm steel.
And are fixed to the underside of the table with 4mm countersunk screws.
The table fitted back on the mill.
The DRO fitted to the brackets with 2 4mm screws.
The sliding part of the DRO is fixed to the cross slide with a 4mm screw.
I haven't figured out yet how to fix the DRO to the cross slide. Theres not a lot of room underneath and is of course obscured by the longtitudinal table. Has anyone out there carried out his mod and if so how did you do it?
Cheers