Issues with DRO on Midas 1220 LTD

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Re: Issues with DRO on Midas 1220 LTD

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Oh....whoops....I thought the question was to me.....

Never mind.....

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Re: Issues with DRO on Midas 1220 LTD

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heavyg603 wrote:Do you ever have issues with coolant or chips on yours in the front ?
No, it's been fine. Mind you, I am using a glass scale with a double lip seal mounted so the read head on the underside. Pretty hard for anything to get at it.

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The other advantage about having the scale on the chuck side is it allowed me to do this on the tailstock side:

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Re: Issues with DRO on Midas 1220 LTD

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Ah ok. Mine is a cheap magnetic one, with a questionable reader mount.
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Re: Issues with DRO on Midas 1220 LTD

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Ok what a weekend.
Broke the whole y axis down,
cleaned it,
redid a bracket that was a little sloppy on a hole,
wrecked the bracket it test (much yelling ensued),
built a new one,
remounted with lock tight
Put a new shield over the whole thing.

Really wanted to mount it on the tail stock side but I couldn't imagine a spot I could put the stand offs without some serious bracket building. I might do it in the future now that everything is working now.

Much thanks to everyone who helped! Gave me a ton of ideas on how to fix this.
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Re: Issues with DRO on Midas 1220 LTD

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Hey....if it works....you're good to go!

I bought my scales & DRO and all, and finally found a spare day to get it all installed....about 3 or 4 months later. :D
It sure won't hurt to ponder on a different installation if you choose to do that later! Nothing like having a plan!

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Re: Issues with DRO on Midas 1220 LTD

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Just added some pics. Oh I definitely want to do more here. Stumbled across the TouchDRO project, I just have to figure out how to get that on my system lol.
warmstrong1955 wrote:Hey....if it works....you're good to go!

I bought my scales & DRO and all, and finally found a spare day to get it all installed....about 3 or 4 months later. :D
It sure won't hurt to ponder on a different installation if you choose to do that later! Nothing like having a plan!

:)
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Re: Issues with DRO on Midas 1220 LTD

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Just did a little more with my setup. Added a Touch DRO system (http://www.yuriystoys.com/). Went through a huge hassle with interference from the scales (next time I'm buying glass) but now thats its resolved I have a ton more functionality on my existing scales.
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Re: Issues with DRO on Midas 1220 LTD

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I built a parallel motion slide with ball slides on parallel shafts and mounted the scale to the shaft end brackets and the read head to the slides, that gives you a stand-alone unit that is very robust and not easily damaged. The whole thing hangs outboard on the back of the lathe with a straight rod to transmit motion.

http://www.magic9designltd.com/fitting- ... uper-7-dro

- Nick
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Re: Issues with DRO on Midas 1220 LTD

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Magicniner wrote:I built a parallel motion slide with ball slides on parallel shafts and mounted the scale to the shaft end brackets and the read head to the slides, that gives you a stand-alone unit that is very robust and not easily damaged. The whole thing hangs outboard on the back of the lathe with a straight rod to transmit motion.

http://www.magic9designltd.com/fitting- ... uper-7-dro

- Nick
Well that certainly gets it out of the way. I may look at that on my next iteration of this.
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