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Need parts for Quality Measurement Systems 400 DRO

Gungaree

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Mar 10, 2019
Anyone have a reader head laying around or know of some one that works on these old DROs? Its the part that slides on the glass scale.
Mine is not reading and from what I can tell the LED is out.
Yes I saw the article in The Home Shop Machinist on this DRO
 
LED might be hard to see, those are typically IR, only a tiny red spot can be seen in a dark room and if looking straight. Replacing LED might not be as straight forward as you think. That scale might have more than one of them and any misalignment between old and new LED or difference in intensity would cause scale not to work or work with degraded accuracy. Calibration and/or adjustments will be necessary which requires specialized tools and experience.

Considering the age of that scale, very likely other parts are worn already out or very close to failure point. Replacing the entire scale would probably make more sense.
 








 
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