Needing Dro Digital Readout Advice For Clausing 1500 Lathe

I haven't done my lathe yet but I recently installed a DRO on my Mill. I purchased a Easson unit it from this store on Ali Express:
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/1021179?spm=2114.10010108.0.35.XiDVbW
The transaction went very smooth, the DRO arrived a week after I ordered it and communication with the seller was excellent. I saved a few hundred dollars about 35% off the Dro Pros price. All in all I'm very happy.
 
DROs are brilliant things, saving my pennies for them at the moment (after I save enough to buy myself a mill, anyway!) - I've done quite a few installs of Easson and Sino, both are pretty good quality for the money and have useful features (like calculating tapers for you).
There are slim scales available (in the shorter lengths) which can be good where space is tight (often the cross-slide needs the slim scale to avoid it poking up above the top of the table, especially if you have a T-slotted table and do ops with work mounted on it, for the topslide scales space is *always* a big issue!).
When mounting, the supplied brackets are pretty pants, make up your own mounts with grubscrews at the corners to allow you to get all aligned properly (put a DTI on the carriage and aim for zero runout as you traverse, good-enuff if well below 10 thou").

For now, I have a Trav-A-Dial for Z and gauge trays with micrometer stops... Old Skool!

Dave H. (the other one)
 
@BGHanson This is an older post but the information is still valuable. I'm in the market for a DRO for my newly acquired 14x60 Republic Lagun lathe and was wondering if you are still happy with the TPAC Tools, mTech DRO. Any insight you can provide will be much appreciated.
 
Last night I ordered a Ditron D80 with a 365mm, 1-micron slim glass scale for the compound and a 1031mm, 5-micron for the carriage. It's for my Colchester Master 6.5 (13"). It was the most economical DRO with good reviews at $385.90, shipped to my house. The price includes $10 for the Hall effect RPM ingredients. They sent me the shipping tracking info this morning. They were easy to deal with and answered all my questions. I did everything via email as others suggested - sales@dcoee.com. You can see it and the options at aliexpress.com.
 
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