Hi everyone!
Based on advice on this site, I purchased my first Optimum mill BF30 something less then a year ago - now I hope I can continue receiving same quality of suggestions

Anyway, I found this: 3 AXIS DIGITAL READOUT DRO FOR MILLING LATHE MACHINE WITH PROCISION LINEAR SCALE | eBay
As a matter of fact, ebay is full of things like that - with similar price tag. Are these systems any good?

Just a bit of a context: I'm relatively to machining and milling in general. I will once upgrade my mill to CNC, but I currently enjoy practicing manual milling and I'd like to ease myself a bit with DRO. I understand that machine fully migrated to CNC does not require scales hence there's one more reason for me not to spend a fortune on DRO, but I'd like it to, well, work. On the other hand, branded DRO systems are like at least $1000 more and up.

Does anyone here use or was using a device like the one on that url and what are experiences?

Thanks,
Bruno

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