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I was replying to another thread about realigning the head of a round column mill/drill when I thought why couldn't a DRO be set up to measure the rotation of the head. Never having used a DRO my best guess is that there is a fixed in place sensor that measures the movement of another sensor. Did a little research on how DRO's work. It seems like it could be made to work. One sensor would be permanently attached to the head. The other sensor on the column would be moved to line up with the head sensor until the DRO read zero and then clamped to the column. Move the head, change the tooling and then move the head back to zero. Probably wouldn't even need a digital read out. A simple light that came on when the two sensors were lined up.
Another one of my wild ideas. Seems like it could work. Shouldn't be expensive to make and people with round column mill/drills would line up to buy one.
Another one of my wild ideas. Seems like it could work. Shouldn't be expensive to make and people with round column mill/drills would line up to buy one.