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I haven't had too much trouble, but I got in there early when the high low shift was acting up and found that the shaft that controls the shift fork didn't have a location hole drill in the right place so, I think it was, the low speed wasn't totally engaging. With the plastic gear that could have been an early failure. I made a new shaft to correct that. When I was in there I noticed that the light grease they were using had mostly been thrown off the gears. I found some grease from Petro-Can that had a high adhesive value and have been using that ever since. For anybody that is interested it is called G124 grease and it comes in cartridges. I use it on the change gears in the lathe also. In there it stays on the gears and doesn't get thrown onto the belt.
 
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Larry_C9 said:
I haven't had too much trouble, but I got in there early when the high low shift was acting up and found that the shaft that controls the shift fork didn't have a location hole drill in the right place so, I think it was, the low speed wasn't totally engaging. With the plastic gear that could have been an early failure. I made a new shaft to correct that. When I was in there I noticed that the light grease they were using had mostly been thrown off the gears. I found some grease from Petro-Can that had a high adhesive value and have been using that ever since. For anybody that is interested it is called G124 grease and it comes in cartridges. I use it on the change gears in the lathe also. In there it stays on the gears and doesn't get thrown onto the belt.
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I’m very curious to see what the motor/belt arrangement looks like on my mill.
 
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I have seen pictures of it and the geared belt setup looked good. Also somewhere there was a conversion to convert the gear head mill to the geared belt drive. I don't know where to find that now. It was quit a while ago.
 
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Picked up my rewired motor and switch today. Best $80 I spent in a while.
And my TouchDRO adapter arrived today. Did a trial assembly and shocking no one more than myself it works with the Z scale I have. The other scale is due this week.
 
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Just working from this: https://www.touchdro.com/store/diy-dro-glass-scale-adapter-v2.html#documentation
I bought the pre-built kit so all I have to do is figure out the pinout on my scales.
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I could not resist a peek at the unit's docs. I noticed that it also has an rpm input and a probe input. According the manual, the probe is a tool setter for CNC.

But I just got a tool setter to evaluate for Z-Axis edge finding w/o cnc. The way I'm thinking is to put the tool setter on the bottom of the vise jaws, touch off the probe and set zero (or an offset) on the DRO Z Axis. This makes the bottom of the part the Z-Axis zero edge. A table of offsets could be used to compensate for parallels. In a discussion on this with @thestelster, he also suggested I might be able to use the tool table function for the parallels.

I know that you are planning to go cnc, but those of us who are not planning to swim with sharks would appreciate any insights you might gain for us too.
 
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Susquatch said:
I could not resist a peek at the unit's docs. I noticed that it also has an rpm input and a probe input. According the manual, the probe is a tool setter for CNC.

But I just got a tool setter to evaluate for Z-Axis edge finding w/o cnc. The way I'm thinking is to put the tool setter on the bottom of the vise jaws, touch off the probe and set zero (or an offset) on the DRO Z Axis. This makes the bottom of the part the Z-Axis zero edge. A table of offsets could be used to compensate for parallels. In a discussion on this with @thestelster, he also suggested I might be able to use the tool table function for the parallels.

I know that you are planning to go cnc, but those of us who are not planning to swim with sharks would appreciate any insights you might gain for us too.
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I have no intentions of going CNC on my mill. Not sure what might have given you that impression.
 
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I have no intentions of going CNC on my mill. Not sure what might have given you that impression.
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I don't know, but I did. Glad to hear I dreamed it. You will be ok as long as you stay away from anything remotely resembling dark side cool aide.
 
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