Bringing a Shaper into the 21st Century

[big job]

        Hi Greg, I mounted a digi calip. on mine works good. Gears & racks
we commonly do on a shaper without all the math. Most jobs are
chipped broken missing teeth. After properly grinding a form tool to
match rack we simply sandwich a good section of a broken rack to
a new blank, set up the cutting tool in the sample manually, then start
a down feed on the blank until down to the root of the sample. Same
proceedure with gears. And cutting tapers also. Also the dig. calp. isnt shown just a dial ind. to set a taper.