Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: need axis design idea

In a message dated 4/16/2006 11:17:49 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
gtravis1@... writes:

Another plan might be to have a PC board made with the pattern for
a digital

> caliper on it; the pattern could be repeated a lot of times across

the width

> of the board, then cut up into strips and assembled end to end to

make a

> long travel. If this works I'll report back here.

There was a project in one of the home shop magazines several years ago,
where a guy did just exactly thing, making his own long travel caliper beams.
Sorry, I don't remember the magazine or the article name.
bill


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