metalmagpie
Titanium
- Joined
- May 22, 2006
- Location
- Seattle
I am in the middle of installing a Fagor DRO on my Nardini 1440E Mascote lathe. I got the scale bolted onto the cross-slide OK. The long scale along the back of the bed, though, is giving me problems. The bed has casting protrusions that preclude bolting the scale directly to the bed. Hence I will need to make some mounting blocks to space the scale out from the bed to clear the casting protrusions.
I don't have enough experience mounting DRO scales to know exactly how to design these mounting blocks.
Some blocks I have seen have set screws to precisely align the tilt of the block prior to mounting the scale. This would be both to have the mounting face both exactly vertical and also exactly parallel to the spindle axis. Then I guess I'd need a hole to screw the block to the bed, and that hole should be elongated so the block can be moved up or down so that both blocks are at exactly the same height. Finally, I'm thinking I will need threaded holes to screw the scale ends to.
Is there something I'm not considering?
metalmagpie
I don't have enough experience mounting DRO scales to know exactly how to design these mounting blocks.
Some blocks I have seen have set screws to precisely align the tilt of the block prior to mounting the scale. This would be both to have the mounting face both exactly vertical and also exactly parallel to the spindle axis. Then I guess I'd need a hole to screw the block to the bed, and that hole should be elongated so the block can be moved up or down so that both blocks are at exactly the same height. Finally, I'm thinking I will need threaded holes to screw the scale ends to.
Is there something I'm not considering?
metalmagpie