This has been addressed in the past, there are several options, one is to stand the scale off with spacers and make a shallow hex nut for a wrench, mount the scale horizontal, or just make a lock that mounts to a follow rest which is what I use. It is simple and easy to make. QED.
Often when doing tight tolerance work one needs to lock the cross slide to get consistent diameters along the length of the cut. My ERL-1340 was fairly tight when new, but over time I did noticed slight shifts in the cross slide position from my original setting. I am using glass scales, and I...
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The DRO install on my 1440GT blocks access to the slide lock... and I'd really like to use the slide lock! - Has anyone come up with any clever workarounds here?
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