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Shoot, I am not getting notifications, by the time I came back to look I already ordered a shorter one! Now that you guys mention it I did see some stuff about cutting glass scales before. On a positive note, I installed the 1200mm one on the z axis and it is all working fine through Touch DRO...

Hi all, I bought the wrong linear scale. It’s a Chinese ditron model. It reads 320mm but the oal is 453mm. I need an oal of 320 ish. Never installed, did connect to touch Dro and works fine. Anyone need one like that?

I also notice that you snuck in a teaser photo of the taper attachment, very sneaky!

Yes, I will look when I get home. There is just a hole through the apron. I'll check to see there is an indication mark there on the apron.

Yes! that is my machine. Does the shaft have a flat where the set screw holds the gear on?

Ok, I wonder why they shaped it that way, maybe to engage the round lead screw better?

Oh snap! So that gear runs on the round shaft AND the spur gear! Wow. I wonder if lablonde can make this. How do you index it? Hmm.

Yes, I am working on a machine shop corner now. The lathe is machine 1. Sent from my SM-G973W using Tapatalk

Racer charged $6800, they told me they had "completely refurbished", crating and packaging was $575, Shipping to Prince George from Cambridge was $2500. I had done some searching and if I tried to find a machine at a sales place (COVID makes swap meets tough) the best I could find was in...

Hi Everyone, I just purchased a Standard Modern Utilathe through Racer. It is said to have been with the military all it's life and been traded in to Racer recently. It's a bit tough to find info on the internet about the bigger Utilathes, but I am super excited to have adopted this one!!! I...