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- Joined
- Sep 25, 2011
- Location
- Garbsen, Germany
I'm adding a 2-axis DRO to my sixty-year-old Studer RHU-450 cylindrical grinder. Where's the best place to mount the display? I'll make vertical post that comes up from the side of the machine with a movable horizontal "swing arm" at the top holding the display. The question is, should the vertical post come up from the right side of the machine, behind the table and to the right of the tailstock? Or should it come up on the left hand side of the machine, behind the table and to the left of the workhead? When I am using the grinder I tend to stand on the right of the grinding wheel so was inclined to put the DRO on the right side. But perhaps that's a mistake and I should start working on the left and locate the display there. In looking at internet photos it seems like DROs are mostly on the left.
Here's a photo soon after I got it, showing what the machine looks like
Here's a photo soon after I got it, showing what the machine looks like