Re: You get what you pay for. Cheap digital fence readout.
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Rust and Steve, Excellent,well done!
Love seeing the different ways we approach this DRO mount, hopefully give others inspiration.
I remember making mine and getting excited whilst working it all out.?
Once upgraded to DRO I don't think I could go back to manual.
Kindest regards
Jonathan Samways
On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 05:13 PM, Steven B wrote:
Wow, Rusty! Super nice.
How is the DRO housing attached to the flip stop?
Steve
?On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 05:13 PM, Steven B wrote:
Wow, Rusty! Super nice.
How is the DRO housing attached to the flip stop?
Steve
Steve,
I drilled and tapped the head of the large black factory bolt.? On my flip stops, that bolt will normally rotate with the flip stop so I used a bearing pressed into my new housings in an attempt to decouple mine from the OEM ones. ? I found that all of my Felder flip stops and bolts are not quite concentric and there is a little eccentric movement of the flip stop when I rotate it.? This had the effect of shifting my digital housings ever so slightly - mostly in the fore and aft direction. ? There seem to be 4 diameters on my bolts but I can't tell if they are all perfectly concentric with one another.? It's possible Felder tried to do something clever here by making the diameters slightly eccentric to preload the flip stop although I'm not sure how that would work unless it was clocked in a certain orientation. ? I also noticed that the actual flip stop plates are not a consistent thickness around their bores. ? This could be a difference in powder coat thickness, sloppy machining, or intentional as part of some clever system I can't quite understand. ? ?Regardless, I didn't like how much my digital housings shifted with flip stop rotation so I use a bearing to somewhat isolate them from the factory stops.
-Rusty
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