all those "universal" brackets that come with the less expensive DRO kits just end up looking like a mess to me, there's got to be a better way. seeing that anyone who sets out to install a DRO on a mill should already have the mill up and running why not make some custom brackets that look good and won't get knocked out of alignment with the slightest bump?
i'm going to post my progress with the sino kit and hopefully others can add in their custom setups as well.
i started out with the Z axis on the knee. instead of the wraparound kludge of 10 angle brackets and 45 screws i decided that the scale should move with the knee and the head should be fixed to the column. but i still wanted the scale to be back aways over the column so it wouldn't interfere with the Y axis or the lube zerk. the pics of the two standoffs are self explanatory. the 20mm plate that mounts the reader head to the column is held in place with two screws and has three set screws for leveling. the big set screw right next to the scale sits in a shallow dimple drilled in the column to keep the whole mess from wanting to slide down towards the scale when tightened up. in retrospect 4 leveling screws would have probably been easier to adjust. the adjustment of this plate can pretty much be eyeballed because the reader head itself has 4 adjusting screws as well.
wait for the edit so the pics can be attached...
dave
i'm going to post my progress with the sino kit and hopefully others can add in their custom setups as well.
i started out with the Z axis on the knee. instead of the wraparound kludge of 10 angle brackets and 45 screws i decided that the scale should move with the knee and the head should be fixed to the column. but i still wanted the scale to be back aways over the column so it wouldn't interfere with the Y axis or the lube zerk. the pics of the two standoffs are self explanatory. the 20mm plate that mounts the reader head to the column is held in place with two screws and has three set screws for leveling. the big set screw right next to the scale sits in a shallow dimple drilled in the column to keep the whole mess from wanting to slide down towards the scale when tightened up. in retrospect 4 leveling screws would have probably been easier to adjust. the adjustment of this plate can pretty much be eyeballed because the reader head itself has 4 adjusting screws as well.
wait for the edit so the pics can be attached...
dave
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