Well, I thought it about time I fitted the DRO kit to my F3. I bought the kit from Machine-DRO (part of the Allendale Group) – only because I have bought from them before and found them to be very helpful. The 3 axis kit is suitable for a Bridgeport and seems to costs no more for longer scales, the scales being of the slim magnetic type.

First task is to mount the readout unit. As you can see the arm is longer than required but allows mew to position the unit where I am happy with it. I can then saw off the spare length.

I’m fairly happy with the position but I won’t cut the bar until the last moment.

Now onto the scales…..