Today in the Shop (Lasers in the shop some where)

[reible]

That is the claim and it appears to be true.

Ed

Ed, did I understand you correctly, that after you had it set to hit that point, if you raised or lowered the table it was still accurate to the drill bit point of contact?

[reible]

There is no need to cut the housing and if one were to adapt this another way you could even avoid the two holes I drilled but it just seemed so simple to drill them and mount that way........ The design is for a single column drill press and in that case they use a hose type clamp to hold it in place.

The drill press column would normally be where this green circle shows.

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The two hole were for these two screws:

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Ed

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Ed

In this picture it looks like you would have to cut off corners of the holder to clear the way tubes.
Is that what you did or is it just a perspective problem with this picture?

[Ed in Tampa]

There is no need to cut the housing and if one were to adapt this another way you could even avoid the two holes I drilled but it just seemed so simple to drill them and mount that way........ The design is for a single column drill press and in that case they use a hose type clamp to hold it in place.

The drill press column would normally be where this green circle shows.

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The two hole were for these two screws:

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Ed

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Ed

In this picture it looks like you would have to cut off corners of the holder to clear the way tubes.
Is that what you did or is it just a perspective problem with this picture?

The corners I was talking about are the ones on the holder to the right and left of the green arrow. From the picture they appear to infiltrate the holes for the way tubes.

[reible]

OK how about another picture.

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This should clear thing up, right?

Ed

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The corners I was talking about are the ones on the holder to the right and left of the green arrow. From the picture they appear to infiltrate the holes for the way tubes.[/quote]

[Ed in Tampa]

OK how about another picture.

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This should clear thing up, right?

Ed

That is more better It was just the sight perspective on the other picture.

[reible]

Most often more better is better so glad to provide a picture of the area in question. Again it is nothing fancy but it appears functional.

Ed

OK how about another picture.

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This should clear thing up, right?

Ed

That is more better It was just the sight perspective on the other picture.

[jsburger]

Re the use on multiple SS, are not the lazers 'aimable'?

Yes, each laser has two settings. My hope is that things might work out so you can interchange them on more then one shopsmith with out having to redo the aim. I know a lot of people have only one shopsmith so that would not be a deal for them but since I have a couple it would be nice to just mount and use them on more then one machine.

Ed

Looks great Ed. I just showed it to my wife and she is all over it for her scroll saw work.

I have thought about this in the past. I would mount it just as you have but I didn't know that any given brand would fit between the way tubes. I see the one you bought is from Peachtree on Amazon so it should be pretty good quality. Looking at the fit I guess it might not work on the 10ER since the way tubes are closer together but maybe with a bracket mod.

I think I will get one on order asap.

[ERLover]

@ John B>
I think I will get one on order asap.
Keep me/us posted for an ER, granted on the tubes, but that is a given. May have to make the front side of the bracket deeper or trim some of the plastic off of the Laser.

[jsburger]

@ John B>
I think I will get one on order asap.
Keep me/us posted for an ER, granted on the tubes, but that is a given. May have to make the front side of the bracket deeper or trim some of the plastic off of the Laser.

Looks like Ed's clears the tubes on the MK V OK. The only part that projects between the tubes is the 'V' bracket and that will clear a 10ER. I was thinking as you, just may have to make the front bracket wider for the 10ER.

[reible]

These things are designed to fit a large number of drill presses so even if you have to mount it more forward it should not matter.

My 10ER is in boxes so I can't check it out but if it helps I can do some measurements of the laser......

Ed