digital taig readout

home made digital readout, cost me about 15 dollar

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Education

Tags:

• taig
• lathe
• digital
• homemade
• peatol
• grimberg
• micro

[Bilbo107]

Very good. Thanks. I have a spare digital vernier and fancy a small project on the old Peatol. Regards. Food for thought.

[happymark1805]

@Bilbo107, I would suggest only one thing different, mount the readout on the right side of the slide instead of the left side because of the swarf, I will do that on mine in the near future.

[benabousa]

do you think about coolant?

[happymark1805]

WD40 doe sthe job if needed and does not seem to hurt the readout, still have to make a air cooling system and want to move the readout to the other side of the carriage, but hey it's cheap and easy top replace if it fails after a few years.

[jhareng]

@benabousa Definately not coolant proof, in fact any moisture it will pack up. Wrecked loads of Mitutoyo with a splash of coolant, now gone IP67.

All three scales went on small mill after a few months use, approx £230 plus 2 axis readout £150. Another £60 could have had real thing! False economy.

By the way i did have some brand new verniers 6 and 8" cost £1.50 each.

[happymark1805]

@jhareng - I made a cover from plexiglass a few months later to prevent any coolant getting in.

[AunShovah]

very clever thanks for the inspiration

[happymark1805]

The song is from 'the police' called 'love is the seventh wave'

[connollyo]

very Nice, I gotta set up my Taig mill with this somehow..Hey whats that song ?..its very nice..

[saunixcomp]

Cool!