Quill DRO on Sieg Super X3

[Bill DawesParticipant @billdawes]

Hi all, my depth readout started to behave erratically, replaced batteries, cleaned exposed section of bar and eventually disconnected and pulled it out to clean.

A flat copper spring fell out and I could not see where it came from, tried the gauge without it and for a while seemed to cure the problem.

However now still no good, reset it to zero but when the quill is moved the gauge jumps to all sorts of measurements.

I partially removed the front cover to see if that would enable me to remove the DRO but could not get it completely off.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Regards

Bill D.

[Bill DawesParticipant @billdawes]

[Michael Cox 1Participant @michaelcox1]

Hi Bill,

The spring provides tension against the steel sliding bar.

The fifth photo in this page about a dro shows the position of the spring, see:

http://mikesworkshop.weebly.com/mill-z-axis-dro.html

I hope this helps.

Mike

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