New Planer in Shop

[Paul Chick (Earthlink)]

Sorry about the mistyped "Wixey."  I have a different machine.  It's a 20"
planer (the name escapes me) made with heavy cast iron, so very little
vibration.  The bracket will have to be fabricated.  

The metal working machinery has DRO's (digital read out) on or available for
many applications.  It's a small step to the woodworking stuff.  Once you
use a machine with DRO, it's very hard to work without it. It's very fast
and VERY accurate.  Imagine milling wood to .0002".  They do not make
precision hand measuring obsolete, just adds to it.
Thanks Terry

Paul C

Subject: Re: New Planer in Shop

Hi Paul - Wixey, not Dixey! No they didn't. They supply a variety of 
brackets that are supposed to work with most benchtop planers. I just bought

a small sheet of steel and cut, bent and drilled - brackets took less than 
an hour to fabricate with my crude methods. I purposely mounted the gauge 
and track several inches out from the machine to provide some flex 
(side-to-side, not up and/or down) to accommodate misalignment. Worked 
perfect the first time.

If your machine is like mine, I have a bunch of close-up pictures of the 
brackets. If they would be of benefit to you, let me know and I will email 
them to you or anyone else privately.

What is a DRO? (Digital Read Out?)

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
> Did Dixey provide the bracket from the planer to the scale?  I'm planning 
> on
> this DRO for mine.
>
> Paul C
>