Mystery part in Grizzly DRO

[gld]

This is stainless steel angle 40 mm long..It was taped to the top of the x-axis scale...No mention of it in the manual.




Anyone know what it's for????

It has a brushed finish on the outside and shiny on the inside.

[sconisbee]

maybe a shim? the DRO i installed on the lathe came with a bunch of those to shim things into alignment, tho not all of them were angled and they all had slots in for screw clearance so maybe not in your case...

[ahidley]

Its like the empty beer bottle that the car dealership found inside a car door that the customer kept bringing back and complaining that the car "rattles".
The dealer finally found it and it had a message taped to it saying: "HA HA ya finally found me"!!

[sconisbee]

Its like the empty beer bottle that the car dealership found inside a car door that the customer kept bringing back and complaining that the car "rattles".
The dealer finally found it and it had a message taped to it saying: "HA HA ya finally found me"!!

LMAO! oh i love that! lol, ill remember that one

[BigBoy1]

I had one just like it in my Grizzly DRO and I used it as a shim to raise the mounting height of the pickup. It was very close to what I needed and two thichnesses of a soda can was just enough to bring ot the needed height.

Bill

[Lew Hartswick]

Its like the empty beer bottle that the car dealership found inside a car door that the customer kept bringing back and complaining that the car "rattles".
The dealer finally found it and it had a message taped to it saying: "HA HA ya finally found me"!!

At my first job after radio and TV trade school (1950), when we
opened the shipping carton for a 16" console Ratheon set (that was
reasonably big in those days) found the crt was broken. Opened up
the back and found a HUMONGUS screwdriver, must have been 18"
long and a blade 1/2" wide. Kept it around for years. :-)
...lew...

[pcarpenter]

If there's only one that probably shoots this idea down, but my import DRO (another brand) had secondary shields that mounted over the shielded scale once they were in place. These were just a long extrusion of some sort and I noticed on mine that they had a pair of tiny holes at each end that looked like they were to hold end caps. No end caps in my set, so I made them from aluminum. Could this be an end cap for the scale cover?

Paul