Installing DRO LMS Mini Mill

[sixgunner]

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Any tips on hooking up the DRO
On this bad boy. Little Machine Shop 3960



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[sixgunner]

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[sixgunner]

A long road ahead

Fig I got a bit to learn to fin the zero percent. Hooking up the DRO looks like it's take a while.

[mike_c70]

Please post your experiences. I'm about to purchase the same mill.

[Discogodfather]

Probably have already read this:

http://littlemachineshop.com/Info/DRO_Compare.php

They are a pain to install but they are AWESOME. I have a kit I got from enco for my knee mill (bridgeport clone) and it is better than CNC for quick jobs. I used to use my friends HAAS mini mill in a kind of manual mode where I would start the spindle and use the controls like a DRO, but not since I got the DRO on the knee mill.

It's kind of like replacing some crappy iron sights with a high quality red dot, it's just better.

[sixgunner]

The DRO was spendy $800 but a no brainer. Hope to have it installed Sat. My Buddy has same Mill and had made some cool steam engines. Looking forward to the journey. Bought a bunch of aluminum stock from Enco to prac on.


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[1lowluv]

i have the same mill. i love it. half of those endmills are junk. dont forget to tram it. do your self a favor and do the air spring conversion. the stock spring sucks and the fine feed doesnt work too smooth at certain heights.

[tr6guns]

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I do a lot of business with ENCO but you might want to check out http://www.speedymetals.com/default.aspx
They have a lot better selection and prices are better, and no order is to small....

[kcstott]

I do a lot of business with ENCO but you might want to check out http://www.speedymetals.com/default.aspx
They have a lot better selection and prices are better, and no order is to small....

And they have tool steel and alloy steel too

[sixgunner]

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Ready to get started


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[subrvin]

I just picked this up too, and the starter kit, looking for videos on "how to". And a table\workbench to mount it on. I was so happy to find out they were in Pasadena, 5 miles away from my office!

[bigcalidave]

I just installed the cheap dro scales from grizzly (or littlemachineshop) and for the display, an android tablet. Total cost was well under $300, and it works perfectly.

http://www.yuriystoys.com/2013/07/arduino-dro-build-instructions.html

[SilentPea]

The cheap DROs from Amazon actually work quite well (the stainless iGaging ones, with blue plastic bits) and are 100% worth the extra cost compared to the aluminum&black plastic ones.

I haven't implemented the arduino+android remote display yet, but I have a 7segment display project in the works.

[milotrain]

This will help you with that forging

http://www.ray-vin.com/tech/lower.htm