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Following on with the rebuild of my Hercus, I have incorporated a DRO on the carriage.
I had purchased a couple of DRO's with 600 mm scales for my mill and after installing one on the x axis of the mill, I decided to fit the other DRO to the lathe and get a shorter one for the mill y axis.
I had started with fabricating an accesory bracket for a travelling lamp on the rear of the saddle, and whilst I was standing on the wrong side of the lathe decide that a DRO would just fit perfecly there. Drilled and tapped a couple of mounting pads that were cast there.
The accessory bracket was just a piece of angle
that I drilled to suit the lamp, plus a couple of other random holes, some tapped, some not, for future, (as yet unthought of) use.
The scale was attached by fixing it directly to the bed.
And then the small brackets included with the kit was modified to mount the pick up to the saddle under-side.
The bracket needed to be in 2 pieces to allow assembly, and future disassembly.
I even thought far enough ahead to keep the accessory bracket low enough to clear the cross slide:lmao:
I am not sure yet whether to mount the display to the carriage, probably to the operator's right of the lamp, or higher up on a tool rack to the rear and far right of the lathe.
I am leaning to the first option as that will be nearer to the work even if it is more exposed.
As I didnt want to run the pickup into the mounting brackets at the end of the scale I knocked up a quick and dirty carriage stop that fits in neatly just in front of the headstock and prevents me from running the carriage beyond a certain point. At the other end the tailstock prevents me from reaching full travel there.
Cheers Phil
I had purchased a couple of DRO's with 600 mm scales for my mill and after installing one on the x axis of the mill, I decided to fit the other DRO to the lathe and get a shorter one for the mill y axis.
I had started with fabricating an accesory bracket for a travelling lamp on the rear of the saddle, and whilst I was standing on the wrong side of the lathe decide that a DRO would just fit perfecly there. Drilled and tapped a couple of mounting pads that were cast there.
The accessory bracket was just a piece of angle
that I drilled to suit the lamp, plus a couple of other random holes, some tapped, some not, for future, (as yet unthought of) use.
The scale was attached by fixing it directly to the bed.
And then the small brackets included with the kit was modified to mount the pick up to the saddle under-side.
The bracket needed to be in 2 pieces to allow assembly, and future disassembly.
I even thought far enough ahead to keep the accessory bracket low enough to clear the cross slide:lmao:
I am not sure yet whether to mount the display to the carriage, probably to the operator's right of the lamp, or higher up on a tool rack to the rear and far right of the lathe.
I am leaning to the first option as that will be nearer to the work even if it is more exposed.
As I didnt want to run the pickup into the mounting brackets at the end of the scale I knocked up a quick and dirty carriage stop that fits in neatly just in front of the headstock and prevents me from running the carriage beyond a certain point. At the other end the tailstock prevents me from reaching full travel there.
Cheers Phil
Just ordered the 12" and 35".