It has been a busy few weeks despite the lack of posts. I made major headway with the Smith & Wesson M&P tool. Unfortunately I am going to keep the photos off the net for a while so it does not interfere with any potential patent decisions. It is going to be a very interesting tool...
Curiosity got the better of me and I finally ordered the Wildhorse Touch Probe. This probe sells for $140 - far less than the $1150 probe sold by Tormach. I have been playing with it and am still on the fence. I think it will be very useful for certain operations - like finding the center of a hole. It requires a bit of fiddling to get it centered - you can see the centering setup using the Starrett 650 back-plunger indicator. I do not think it will be better than the trusty Starrett edge finder for locating edges and setting the machine DRO. I played with the digitizing functions a little - it uses a "bed o nails" approach and drives straight down on the object. This will work for metal, but it will make marks on anything wooden.
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