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Maik Tobin
03-08-2011, 11:19 AM
Has anyone installed a digital readout on a 15 inch Grizzly planer? I would like to install one, but not sure if I would be able to fabricate any parts needed to adapt it to the Grizzly.
Wixey has a new remote readout that looks like it might work....but I would like to hear from anyone who has installed one on a GO453Z or similar machine.
Josh Bowman
03-08-2011, 11:38 AM
Mine is a Delta 380 clone, it may be like the Grizzly, see if this is in the ball park?
Cary Falk
03-08-2011, 11:53 AM
I used this Igaging one from Grizzly

http://www.grizzly.com/products/12-Digital-Scale-with-Remote-Readout-Inch-Metric-Fraction/T23012

I had to fab my own mounting brackets.
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Maik Tobin
03-08-2011, 11:57 AM
I used this Igaging one from Grizzly

http://www.grizzly.com/products/12-Digital-Scale-with-Remote-Readout-Inch-Metric-Fraction/T23012

I had to fab my own mounting brackets.
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How did you make the brackets? I really have no access to anything other than what I can make with plyers and a vice. I saw that unit and wondered if it would fit.
Josh Bowman
03-08-2011, 12:06 PM
How did you make the brackets? I really have no access to anything other than what I can make with plyers and a vice. I saw that unit and wondered if it would fit.
Look at the top of my Wixey, it has a flat angle bracket with the leg cut off. Just look around you shop, there's always spare stuff that came with tools and what not.
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRxOaG2-wD9O9ocx2P1le5_1ndMeQMOxqx15w9XwvasoGzc2Zh6-w
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRsJqR4Z3uy2RYUWqg8K_ahO5OjL4abs VH0hndZBMl51CH7lM9T
Cary Falk
03-08-2011, 12:12 PM
How did you make the brackets? I really have no access to anything other than what I can make with plyers and a vice. I saw that unit and wondered if it would fit.

Sorry about the bad picture. It is the only one I have access to at the current time. The angle iron that is attached ti the bed is welded to the flat piece of thinner metal with the 2 screws in it. There is a z shaped piece behind that piece that wraps around the corner and connects it to the device it. The 2 screw holes are slotted for adjustability. I welded up my brackets because I can and I like the sleeker look. There is someone here that posted last year with a picture that used a block of wood to do the same thing.

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?147491-Digital-Readout-on-Grizzly-G0453Z-Planer&highlight=T23012