My Lathe Dro Just Arrived.

[Sandia]

Makes life a whole lot easier, right.

 

[NCjeeper]

Yeah my lathe looked like it had the mumps with all the mag based dial indicators everywhere on it. Cant wait to rid them and get the DRO on.

 

[autonoz]

Im guessing, watching the Panthers lose to the Cardinals.

 

[hman]

That was the Packers - my favorite team since SuperBowl I. And there I was at a party in Scottsdale!

 

[ch2co]

Beautiful well kept machine! Except, something is wrong..... It's just TOO clean, I mean you do use it, don't you?

CHuck the grumpy old guy

 

[RIMSPOKE]

Beautiful well kept machine! Except, something is wrong..... It's just TOO clean, I mean you do use it, don't you?

IS THIS PICTURE ANY BETTER ? THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE WHEN I GOT IT HOME

THIS MAXIMAT WAS BOUGHT NEW BY AN IBM LAB IN 1990 . THEY DIDN'T USE IT MUCH .
THEY ORDERED IT WITH ALMOST EVERY OPTION AND WITH A 120v SINGLE PHASE MOTOR !

MY DEPARTMENT GOT IT FOR FREE FROM SURPLUS BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE ROOM FOR IT IN THE SHOP .
SO IT SAT IN STORAGE FOR 6 YEARS . MY SHOP WAS CLOSED IN SEPTEMBER & I WAS LAID OFF .

ALL THE EQUIPMENT WAS SOLD AS A PACKAGE DEAL TO A FRIEND OF MINE , WHO PASSED THE
LATHE ON TO ME . IT GETS USED A LOT MORE NOW BUT IT ALSO GETS CLEANED .

 

[NCjeeper]

I got in a couple hours of shop time today. Removed the inaccurate Igaging system and started on hooking up the cross slide scale.

 

[NCjeeper]

Since I got snowed in today and couldn't get to work I got in the shop and worked on the install. I got one scale finally mounted. I will have to move the lathe so I can get behind it to mount the other scale.

 

[RIMSPOKE]

Since I got snowed in today and couldn't get to work I got in the shop and worked on the install. I got one scale finally mounted.

HERE IS HOW I MOUNTED MY Z SCALE . THE CABLES FLEX AS THEY RUN THROUGH A TRACK .
IT GOES DOWN TOWARDS THE TAILSTOCK AND THEN BACK AGAIN .

THE IDEA WAS TO HAVE THEM CONTAINED AND OUT OF THE WAY OF STRINGY CHIPS .

 

[NCjeeper]

Neat idea.