Digital Caliper help

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02-17-2011, 08:36
andy_con

Digital Caliper help

i want to mount some digital calipers to my milling machine, but i need the screen to be visible. so i would like to relocate the screen only.

dismantled the thing and as i suspected not a simple job as the screen is connect via a little rubber connector -

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x..._009Medium.jpg

you can connect the calipers to a read out but the screens are just stupid money -

http://www.steves-workshop.co.uk/too...dro-wiring.jpg

http://www.steves-workshop.co.uk/too...otereadout.jpg

so does anyone have any suggestions on how i could do something similar??
02-17-2011, 09:25
danielbriggs

£34.
http://www.warco.co.uk/Digital-readouts-1DB8ADA73B.aspx
02-17-2011, 09:27
andy_con

top man dan, been searching all over google for dro's.

do you know if you can connect digital calipers to it?
02-17-2011, 10:26
hobbybob

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Hey Andy,

This is how my buddy did it:
Attachment 23685
02-17-2011, 13:31
JohnYayas

You can build a real DRO that plugs into those calibers from a kit. Look up Shumatech.
02-17-2011, 13:52
andy_con

Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnYayas

You can build a real DRO that plugs into those calibers from a kit. Look up Shumatech.

cos i didnt relly wana go down tha route

ive got it sorted now
02-17-2011, 13:56
JohnYayas

DROs are awesome. They don't just give a position readout. They do computational stuff like tell you exactly where to drill holes beased on what you are doing, etc.
02-17-2011, 14:14
andy_con

also that place you suggested is sold out of everything
02-17-2011, 14:36
JohnYayas

oh well. you'll eventually get one.
02-17-2011, 14:37
andy_con

im going to get two of these

http://www.warco.co.uk/Digital-scale...2C4E98774.aspx
02-17-2011, 22:22
hobbybob

PM sent to ya Andy !
02-23-2011, 03:34
andy_con

3 dro's added to the mill last night whoop whoop.

testing tonight :)
02-23-2011, 03:56
danielbriggs

Quote:

Originally Posted by andy_con

3 dro's added to the mill last night whoop whoop.

testing tonight :)

Photos or it didn't happen! *retardo

(P.S. Nice one!)
02-23-2011, 04:00
andy_con

ok ill do a pic when i get home briggs.

next two things on my hit list are -

lighting
belt drive kit

a half decent light at a half decent price - heres the best ive found so far -

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GOOSENECK-HALO...-/330413114461

anyone got any other suggestions?
02-23-2011, 04:10
danielbriggs

Lamp ^^^
Will last for ever. 2 thumbs up.
Don't get a shit one from the pound shop; the Chronos one is good.
02-23-2011, 04:23
andy_con

only cos Chronos is your favourite shop!!

i was tempted to mill a lamp up ;)

but ill probably end up getting that one.
02-23-2011, 11:21
andy_con

ok loving DRO's, every mill should come with them as standard. they make milling so much quicker and easier, i dont have to stand there like a dick with a calculator trying to work out how many turns of the handles i need to do.

photos for ya dan

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x..._002Medium.jpg

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x..._003Medium.jpg

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x..._004Medium.jpg

only took about an hour to knock this 3 diode holders up, so much quicker than before

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x...0704Medium.jpg

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x...0703Medium.jpg
02-23-2011, 11:29
danielbriggs

Super lamb there Con!
Good job ol' chap. :)
02-27-2011, 03:23
LaNeK779

have you started thinking about retrofitting a cnc kit there andy?
02-27-2011, 08:54
andy_con

Quote:

Originally Posted by LaNeK779

have you started thinking about retrofitting a cnc kit there andy?

nope and no plans to, i love doing it by hand
02-27-2011, 13:08
LaNeK779

Quote:

Originally Posted by andy_con

i love doing it by hand

a handjob then???

i sure hope a certain group of people, not strangers to you, won't take this statement and turn it against you :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
02-28-2011, 01:53
danielbriggs

Quote:

Originally Posted by LaNeK779

a handjob then???

i sure hope a certain group of people, not strangers to you, won't take this statement and turn it against you :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1094/...81cb2b.jpg?v=0
02-28-2011, 03:19
JohnYayas

I have a mill like that and am not too interested in CNC right now, either. But, Andy, a good thing to add is an auto feed kit. It's a bolt on kit that will move the X axis for you.
02-28-2011, 03:25
andy_con

Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnYayas

I have a mill like that and am not too interested in CNC right now, either. But, Andy, a good thing to add is an auto feed kit. It's a bolt on kit that will move the X axis for you.

my next upgrade is a belt drive kit, but may look into that at a later date
02-28-2011, 15:38
JohnYayas

Buy a mini-lathe and then you can make the belt drive kit... and pretty much anything else for that matter.

Also, I see you have a gas spring on yours. Did it come with that or did you install it? I converted to one and then later added another one so I have two in parallel. It make the height just about weightless.