Re: DRO or not

Dave,

thanks for the answer.

I'm thinking about buying a Sherline 4400 lathe and 5400 mill as I
would use the equipment for modelling (actually building largescale
trains).

Cost is defintely an issue. If the path of ones own development leads
inevitably to cnc......and you are right, there was a time before the
digital age!

Malte

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "turbulatordude
<davemucha@j...>" <davemucha@j...> wrote:

> Hi Malte,
>
> There are a few things you need to considder.
>
> first, you did not mention the machine type.
>
> If money is your major concern, wait and do it right, one time, not
> over and over in ever increaseing quality and ever increasing costs.
>
> if you have access to surplus components, then check the dro files

in

> the files section. you may be able to do a DRO for time and labor
> with little cost.
>
> if you are looking at servo's, considder making the mounting

brackets

> and using encoders now, for use on the servo's later.
>
> If you are not involved in machineing, it may be better to actually
> start cutting parts to know why you NEED either in the first

place.

> There are quite a few projects that do NOT lend themselves to CNC.
> And not all machining requires DRO's. we lived for over a century
> without digital readouts and did things like turbine engines, moon
> rockets and precision watches.
>
> Good tools make things easier for those that can do. they do not
> substutite for being able to do it in the first place. OK, space

age

> tools allow us to do space age work.
>
> imho
>
> Dave
>
> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "J. Malte Stoeckhert
> <malte.stoeckhert@i...>" <malte.stoeckhert@i...> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm considering to get into machining and trying to figure out if
> > adding DRO makes sense at all or a later CNC upgrade is the way

to

> > go/wait...?
> >
> > Any comments?
> >
> > Malte