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Okay, I'm going to add so you guys can have a few giggles at my expense..... About five years ago I picked up a CX706 lathe. I never read the manual and started using it. My biggest pet peeve was just as you described, to tighten the tail stock it required two iterations with the wrench to get...

Welcome aboard from the capitol of Canada.

I installed one on my CX706. I used what I had (leftovers for the scales). I'm just using the touchscreen that I'm using for LinuxCNC for the display. I think once you have used a DRO on any machine operating one without is just a PITA in need of an upgrade.

Beautiful pictures! We had a pretty good dump in Ottawa, so we escaped to somewhere with less no snow and lows of 23C. We shall return when when it's safe;-)

After I removed the compound (no longer needed, software can emulate the compound with CNC), and beefing up the cross slide, my little machine is much more rigid. I get mirror like finish with carbide if I crank up the RPM towards 2000 (depending on what I'm tuning). At some point I will take...

I decided to give this a try.....

I have a Starrett it works well. My buddy purchased an Amazon special and it's useless because it's way too sensitive, the crappy one is fully deflected with 1um. Might be okay if you have a 20' deep concrete base and you don't breath anywhere near it.

Hello from Ottawa.

Run a 3P motor from single phase power - cheapest/simplest solution just use a VFD Get single phase power from three phase power, just connect the single phase load.