Re: DRO or not

Jon and the other who have replied.

Thanks a lot.

Your answers confirmed my thought that waiting to upgrade to CNC at
a later time make more sense.

Malte

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Jon Elson <elson@p...> wrote:
>
>
> J. Malte Stoeckhert 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...?
> >
> >
> It depends on the machine, what you intend to do with it, etc. If
you
> want to do precision
> work, a DRO is the minimum gear you need. I tried to do some low
> precision work without
> anything but leadscrew dials, and had major problems. I got an old
> optical readout that
> was the forerunner to the DRO, and it made an enormous improvement
in
> accuracy. Screws
> actually fit right through the holes without filing anymore! Wow!
>
> But, CNC is much better. What you design is what you cut. And,
you
> quickly start doing
> things with angled cuts and arcs that are a BEAR to do without
CNC. If
> you do even a
> modest number of identical parts, then CNC brings even more
benefits.
> Once you get
> the CNC program right, then you can turn out more parts very easily.
>
> Jon