Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

[dhal22]

Come on guys, tell your wife's what I told mine. That ring cost me more than I could ever spend in this hobby, don't make me sell it.

Outstanding!

 

[TonyHallo]

That's a nice machine with nice features, 1" bore, power cross feed, 3" travel on the tail stock, 4 jaw chuck included, hell get the 30" with DRO!!!!!

 

[Snoopy1]

What is BRO?

 

[dhal22]

What is BRO?

DRO. Digital readout.

 

[dhal22]

That's a nice machine with nice features, 1" bore, power cross feed, 3" travel on the tail stock, 4 jaw chuck included, hell get the 30" with DRO!!!!!

Getting the 30 but haven't considered the DRO.

 

[WMcNabb]

Come on guys, tell your wife's what I told mine. That ring cost me more than I could ever spend in this hobby, don't make me sell it.

 

[acerc]

Sorry brother but in my household I don't touch hers and she don't touch mine. Ask me how this came to be? He, he, he!!!!

 

[TonyHallo]

The DRO is very useful, I wish I had it on my lathe. For carriage work I will setup a 1" dial on the the tail stock and use it to move the carriage the desired amount like making parts like engine standoffs the same length.
I see it is a $500 option. Decided to see what is available on Banggood and ended up buying a 2 axis 0-970 mm unit for 104$, of course I need to install it. Can't wait.
Here is a photo of a Harbor Freight 6" digital caliper mounted on the Z feed on my mill. I fiddled around for a day or so getting this mounted. Sawed the unnecessary fittings off and cut to length, works great. Touch the part, hit the zero and off you go.
The $500 may be well spent, of course it is easy when spending others money!!!

 

[Snoopy1]

The DRO is very useful, I wish I had it on my lathe. For carriage work I will setup a 1" dial on the the tail stock and use it to move the carriage the desired amount like making parts like engine standoffs the same length.
I see it is a $500 option. Decided to see what is available on Banggood and ended up buying a 2 axis 0-970 mm unit for 104$, of course I need to install it. Can't wait.
Here is a photo of a Harbor Freight 6" digital caliper mounted on the Z feed on my mill. I fiddled around for a day or so getting this mounted. Sawed the unnecessary fittings off and cut to length, works great. Touch the part, hit the zero and off you go.
The $500 may be well spent, of course it is easy when spending others money!!!View attachment 112976

Nicely done like the idea. Will keeping my eye out for a cheap digital calliper. Will do the same thing thanks for the idea.

 

[TonyHallo]

I just went back to Banggood and realized I made a mistake in ordering, the linear scales are a fixed length and can not be cut to size. I canceled the order and reordered the correct lengths along with the 2 axis display. The order now stands at $224 so the $500 installed option is looking better. If this works out well will add a three axis to the milling machine.