01-27-2015, 11:03 AM
Anyone that has a DRO on your lathe can you tell me if you have this feature?
I've drilled a thru-hole in the piece and then bored it just enough to get a good finish. I've measured the hole with an inside micrometer and now I want to bore it to size. I can set the lathe axis to the starting diameter but when I go to bore it to size the display reads a smaller number as I increase the hole size. I could do the arithmetic but it seems like there should be a function in the DRO to do this. Maybe there is and I'm just not understanding the nomenclature in the manual. So does anyone know if their DRO can do what I'm trying to do, display the size of the bored hole properly as it's enlarged?
Ed
I've drilled a thru-hole in the piece and then bored it just enough to get a good finish. I've measured the hole with an inside micrometer and now I want to bore it to size. I can set the lathe axis to the starting diameter but when I go to bore it to size the display reads a smaller number as I increase the hole size. I could do the arithmetic but it seems like there should be a function in the DRO to do this. Maybe there is and I'm just not understanding the nomenclature in the manual. So does anyone know if their DRO can do what I'm trying to do, display the size of the bored hole properly as it's enlarged?
Ed