Tool Tooling up a milling machine

[justin1]

If anyone was curious on some of the quality of the Alibaba stuff I bought here is some pictures seems fairly well made haven't checked Run out on anything yet but looks good if that's worth anything lol.

 

[phaxtris]

its like Christmas time!

 

[Alawishes]

A friend recently informed me we were both buying a Vevor 3 axis DRO for our mills. US$200, free shipping anywhere in the US. We both have X and Y scales installed (Z to come soon) and we are both impressed with the quality/function of the system.

 

[CWret]

I have a recently purchased Vevor magnetic chuck and a Vevor sonic parts cleaner i got couple of years ago. Very happy with both items.

 

[CWret]

And both Vevor items were considerably less $ than others i had considered

 

[LenVW]

A friend recently informed me we were both buying a Vevor 3 axis DRO for our mills. US$200, free shipping anywhere in the US. We both have X and Y scales installed (Z to come soon) and we are both impressed with the quality/function of the system.

There are many DROs on the market. I have bought mill tables and vises from VEVOR. Good quality.
I-Gaging supplied my DROs (X and Y) for under C$200.

 

[Alawishes]

Interesting concept with 2 readouts. Our Vevor DRO’s came with the 3 scales, will do bolt circle calculations, center finding using 2 edges, imperial or metric measurements, absolute/incremental, where to drill holes for a radius, preprogrammed tool diameters, and a built in calculator that does trigonometry. There might be more too! For many years a DRO that would do this was in the $800-1000 range so I couldn’t afford one but at this price….

 

[PaulL]

For many years a DRO that would do this was in the $800-1000 range so I couldn’t afford one but at this price….

TouchDRO plus a Fire10 tablet came in at about $250. The scales remain the pricey part at about $100 per axis. But for that you get the nice low-profile, easy to trim to length magnetic scales.

 

[Alawishes]

I had to trim one of my scales to length — a little scary but I took it apart and used a glass cutter, rather than just cut the whole thing on a bandsaw (lots of YouTubers got away with doing this).

 

[LenVW]

Interesting concept with 2 readouts. Our Vevor DRO’s came with the 3 scales, will do bolt circle calculations, center finding using 2 edges, imperial or metric measurements, absolute/incremental, where to drill holes for a radius, preprogrammed tool diameters, and a built in calculator that does trigonometry. There might be more too! For many years a DRO that would do this was in the $800-1000 range so I couldn’t afford one but at this price….

The I-Gaging DROs are simply for X & Y location readouts. I have been told by a few members that the Data Ports can be hooked up to a processor/display for geometric shapes, but I haven’t went that far yet.

 

[justin1]

Good to know I wouldn't mind adding a z axis gauge to the milling machine. I got the auto depth stop gauge but it is kinda nice to turn brain off and just look at the flashing lights lol.