DRO for Tom Senior M1 mill

[The Merry MillerParticipant @themerrymiller]

Evening all, (knees bend and all that)

 

Has anyone fitted the “Igaging” DRO’s to the above milling machine.

I would be interested to read their comments and what problems they had if at all possible.

 

Igaging stuff is available from “Intelligent Workshop Tools”

 

Len. P.

 

 

 

 

 

[The Merry MillerParticipant @themerrymiller]

[The Merry MillerParticipant @themerrymiller]

 

 

Well, no response to that one.

 

Let’s try this one!

Has anybody out there fitted a DRO of any kind to the above mill?

I would be very interested to hear people’s comments and recommendations or otherwise about systems they have installed.

 

Len. P.

 

 

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

Sorry no to both questions, but just so you don’t feel ignored there was a picture of a young Tom Senior himself in an ME of about 1940. He had a remarkably modern haircut and was a pretty sharp businessman by all acounts, as well as insisting on quality.

 

I reckon if he was alive today he would have been running an IT company!

 

Neil

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

Len

 

I cannot offer any direct info but I too am considering fitting igaging DROs to my mill (not a Tom Senior).

 

These scales work on the same principle as cheap Chinese calipers and as such ‘can’ suffer from swarf ingress and of coarse limited resolution . The big advantage with having a separate display is that the scale can be sited out of harms way.

 

I hacked two 6″ calipers and fitted them to a small mill last year, they transformed the use of the machine but having to mount them so the display was readable meant they required frequent dismantling to clean them. I don’t think the same would apply to a remote display setup.

 

One question that might be worth asking of igaging relates to ‘auto power off’ and whether the last reading is stored when off.

 

The calipers I used switched off the display after 10 minutes or so. When I switched the caliper back on the display showed the value it had when it turned off. If I went away from a job for a cup of tea I knew I could just carry on from where I left off. The new calipers I have also switch themselves off, BUT, they always initialise to zero. I don’t know whether the igaging scales have auto off but it would be worth asking before you buy.

 

Ian Phillips

 

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[NJHParticipant @njh]

Hi Len

These scales/displays look very like the ones I purchased from Warco for my mill . I can confirm that mine hold their display when switched off ( even over extended periods) . I have fixed the scale to the rear of my mill table and it is protected by a piece of right angle section aluminium along its length. Seems to work well.

 

Regards

 

Norman

Edited By NJH on 22/11/2011 21:23:55

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