The Home Machinist!

Maby I have some sort of chunk fetisch. Have 7 now that i all use , some more than the other. 3 jaw 8 inch 3 jaw 12,5 inch indexable 4 jaw 8 inch 4 jaw 8 inch 4 jaw 12 inch 4 jaw 15 inch ( about 180 pound with huge jaws ) clamping plate 14 inch and still when i see one for sale i have to realy tell ...

I bought a 4 axis DRO with 0,001 mm scales , the problem was that the DRO stoped working ith just some strange symbols on the display´s , did send a pic of it ti the factory and that was enough to have them send a new unit. on alibaba you can find them but better contact sales@dcoee.com Oscar He has...

I bought direct fron the factory in China a ditron DRO
After a bit over a year I got a problem with it , but factory send replacement parts for free.
Think the price is a lot better than from DRO pro´s

Do you realy need cnc


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I have bought Two times a DRO kit direct from China.
last set
1 1000mm scale 0,001 mm resolution
1 350mm scale 0,001 mm resolution
1 RPM pickup
1 4 axis DRO
Total price 380 usd including shipping

Thanks for all the links.
a lot of reading and lots of usefull info.
Steam is all new to me, so I think that I need some sort of building plan.
All my other build I have done without a plan or even a rough drawing.

I would not buy a chinese lathe, you have lost half your money as soon as it is in your shop. I have worked with a small colcester lathe for years, just like the one that is in this ad http://www.ebay.com/itm/Clausing-Colchester-13x36-heavy-duty-geared-head-precision-lathe-4-jaw-3-jaw-/301143637916?...

I´m making up the plans for building a steampunk style steam powerd wheelchair,. I´m new to steam, so i´s a bit hard to get started. What I want is a standing two cilinder, single action. Two cilinder for the loks and single action , becouse it looks a bit easyer to build. I have the material to bui...

I have used the scales as mentiond in the post above. They do read up till 0,01 mm , but realy prefer a real DRO. I now have mounted the simple one to the tailstock, and it is great for that. The display of a real dro is a lot better to read and will give a lot more functions. But on a small lathe w...

I use a ditron 4 axis dro.
dro, 1000mm scale, 300mm scale 1 um resolution, sensor for rpm , all together 385 usd including shipping.

I got started with the milling attachment for the lathe , first I made a adaptor to hold SK 40 tooling in the spindle, http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Foto-3WSPTSLR-G.jpg made a angle plate out of 0,6 inch steel http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Foto-ZINAFQFA-G.jpg just the top of the cross table in place , it gives ...

Spend enough hour cleaning the old meuser . It turned out rather well, new paint, for me it looks decent enough not perfect Have frequency cotroll unit, and a 4 axis DRO, the z axis wil be used for a milling atatcment that I´m building, and on the 4thaxis it can display spindle RPM. It is a lot stro...