Our team has a new milling machine (Grizzly G0761) as an upgrade to the robotics laboratory. After last season we decided to add a 3 axis DRO to the mill for accuracy. We have the parts for the DRO but are a bit wary of installation directions (drilling into and our new mill :ahh: )
Are there any tips or advice for DRO installation?
Could someone post a picture of their installed add-on DRO?
Also any cool project ideas for the newly enabled DRO mill once we have one finished? What parts have you made?
I have installed two DRO Pros glass scale systems, one on Team 100’s Grizz 14x40 lathe and one on an LMS X-2 minimill. I made custom bracketry for the reader heads instead of using the sketchy ones in the packages. I made some simple aluminum block jigs to help me drill and tap straight. Just follow the directions slowly and methodically, shim and adjust to get the scales aligned with the slide travels, and make sure the slide travel is more or less centered in the scale travel.
We just got a similar mill but it had the DRO installed. I did get some help from Youtube DRO Pro’s have some good videos. If you think it would help I can take some good pictures of how our DRO is mounted