02-14-2014, 04:47 PM
(02-14-2014, 07:26 AM)Mayhem Wrote: I've been doing some after hours work over the past couple of months and been squirreling away the money to pay for various things.
One major thing was the parts from Kondia, so that I can get my mill up and running. These were ordered last week and shipped yesterday. The tracking info indicates I'll have them on Tuesday
Another thing I have been thinking about getting is a DRO for both my lathe (as the dials are useless) and one for my mill. I've been keeping an eye on some of the sellers on eBay and the shipping has always seemed a little expensive ($125). I even enquired previously about combined shipping and was told they could take $20 off. Well the seller that I had been watching no longer has the 2 axis DRO that I wanted. So, I looked at a few other sellers and read as many forum posts as I could.
In the end, I settled on the DRO store in Singapore and noticed that they currently have a promotion on that includes free shipping with FedEx. These too should arrive next week! They sent me the links to their "visual guide manual" and I was surprised to see that the mill they show the installation on (x and y axis only) is a Kondia FV-1
Darren,
Would you be willing to share the link to the "visual guide manual"? I need to get a DRO on my mill. I went with a DROPROS for my lathe and if I had to do it over I would go with a 3 axis DRO for the lathe. DROPROS doesn't offer a 3 axis for the lathe though. At least not a lathe specific DRO like the 2 axis I got.
Ed