Digital Caliper help

i want to mount some digital calipers to my milling machine, but i need the screen to be visible. so i would like to relocate the screen only.

dismantled the thing and as i suspected not a simple job as the screen is connect via a little rubber connector -

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x..._009Medium.jpg


you can connect the calipers to a read out but the screens are just stupid money -

http://www.steves-workshop.co.uk/too...dro-wiring.jpg

http://www.steves-workshop.co.uk/too...otereadout.jpg


so does anyone have any suggestions on how i could do something similar??

£34.
http://www.warco.co.uk/Digital-readouts-1DB8ADA73B.aspx

top man dan, been searching all over google for dro's.

do you know if you can connect digital calipers to it?

Hey Andy,

This is how my buddy did it:
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You can build a real DRO that plugs into those calibers from a kit. Look up Shumatech.

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Originally Posted by JohnYayas

You can build a real DRO that plugs into those calibers from a kit. Look up Shumatech.

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cos i didnt relly wana go down tha route

ive got it sorted now

DROs are awesome. They don't just give a position readout. They do computational stuff like tell you exactly where to drill holes beased on what you are doing, etc.

also that place you suggested is sold out of everything

oh well. you'll eventually get one.

im going to get two of these

http://www.warco.co.uk/Digital-scale...2C4E98774.aspx