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I've had my Little Machine Shop 3540 for a couple of years now, and I'm getting tired of counting turns on the wheels. Since it's virtually the same size as 9x20, I figured it would be easy to find kits to add DROs, but I don't seem to find any.
Sieg has a kit for digital readouts on the cross slide and compound rest, but those are the ones I have the least trouble. The main one I'd like to put a DRO on is the carriage handwheel. After that, probably the tailstock.
The way I estimate it, I don't think there's going to be more than 18" of travel on the carriage, and there are some kits that long.
Has anyone here gone down this road? I'd like to have an idea of where to mount the thing. There are magnetic and glass kits, and I really don't know the advantages/disadvantages of each.
Sieg has a kit for digital readouts on the cross slide and compound rest, but those are the ones I have the least trouble. The main one I'd like to put a DRO on is the carriage handwheel. After that, probably the tailstock.
The way I estimate it, I don't think there's going to be more than 18" of travel on the carriage, and there are some kits that long.
Has anyone here gone down this road? I'd like to have an idea of where to mount the thing. There are magnetic and glass kits, and I really don't know the advantages/disadvantages of each.