I added a DRO to the tailstock of my lathe primarily because I had trouble reading the graduations on the ram.
Consists of 3ea 3D printed parts and some M3 SHCS.
I posted the files on thingiverse.com.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6159891
Seems to do the trick. Just installed it last...
This pdf file shows (hopefully) how I made a simple and cheap Single Axis DRO for my antique lathe. It is like me and suffers from backlash in most joints:rolleyes: DRO uses a cheap digital vernier gauge , an Arduino and a 16x2 LCD display.
Originally posted wrong file:oops: hopefully now...