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Always wanted one of them, but no 12mm Ali lying around of DRO vernier, So what is in the scrap bin?
Piece of 32mm Pipe and some 10 x 10 sq bar.
After some welding, drilling, tapping and painting and it is done.
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Setting to "0" is moving the piece of yellow tape.
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Crude but a lot easier than counting turns. :lol:
Useful without turning it into a grant project or work of art. That's my kind of solution.
I need to change my name. How's "Grant Project" sound?Quote:
Originally Posted by Crusty
More related to the OP, a similar trick works on milling machine X and Y axis. The scale isn't required, just masking tape and ink pen.
On any particular work -count the turns just once and mark the tape accordingly, even closely spaced positions. ie .200 - .400 - .600 - .800 - 1.000 - 1.200 - 1.400 - and .037 Benefit not so obvious in this? Visualize 20 something inches.
That's where ink pen comes in, clean distinct tic-offs.
Just became markedly easier to re-attain coordinates, right to the .001! Without spending dollars or interpreting DRO instructions.
Hey Frank do you use a marker on your milling vise too as a dry erase board to jot things down?
Frank probably does.
Fred definitely does.
See quip within rather than below. . .
I don't know which Frank you are talking to but this one does
Oops - didn't read the posts carefully enough. But to anyone named Frank I guess it still works. :cool:
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