The carriage handwheel has huge graduations, and the boat from china with my dro is nowhere in sight. I'm sick and tired of using the dial indicator on a mag base and at the moment the mill is down. It was time to do something down and dirty to save what's left of my sanity. Thanks to the touch Dro crowd I now know my mini lathe dro was doomed because the scales grounded to the machine. So I made up a way clamp out of scraps and fit some plastic sheeting between the scales and the clamp/lathe to isolate them. Now my new 12x36 dogmeat dro works fantastic with the same scales that go ape on the 7x12.