{"id":917,"date":"2010-02-08T00:23:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T05:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thmsblog.tedatum.com\/?p=917"},"modified":"2010-02-08T00:56:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T05:56:26","slug":"sneak-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"Sneak Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>I have been putting time into installing a <a title=\"DroPros Site\" href=\"http:\/\/dropros.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Read Out (DRO)<\/a> for my X3 mill. These are a couple of spy photos of the installation. What you see here is the completed Y axis scale installation and the nearly finished X axis scale. I am using the mill to make the mounting brackets. That is why you see some dross in the pictures and the vice on top.<\/p>\n<p>I am currently\u00a0machining a bracket for the X axis carriage mount.Then I\u00a0have an idea how to mount a cover over the X Scale. That is the reason for the ears at each end. A slightly shorter scale could be used here for the X axis but the longer length is not a problem. I am also noodling out how to mount the Z axis scale.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a full report on this installation and how the DRO operates coming up soon. Lots of action photos on the installation and operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been putting time into installing a Digital Read Out (DRO) for my X3 mill. These are a couple of spy photos of the installation. What you see here is the completed Y axis scale installation and the nearly finished X axis scale. I am using the mill to make the mounting brackets. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[53,24,47],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metalwork","tag-dro","tag-machine","tag-x3-mill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}