Made a depth stop for my quill, repeats pretty well unlike using the power downfeed depth collar as a depth stop (which is was not designed to do).
I used a Morton quick release quill stop that's made for BPs. Which means I used the same 1/2"-20 thread like on BPs. Here is showing the quill stop in action.
Here you can see how it's mounted. I probably went overboard on the thickness of everything but I want it to repeat well with no flex & is also why I decided not to use aluminum. And it does repeat excellent!
Quill fully extended.
The rest of the pics are just some of the WIP pics.
Machined the quill bracket on the lathe to ensure the top surface would be fairly square to quill.
Might as well do the bottom too.
Cleaning up the quill bracket.
Verified how square it is, measuring to the table. I don't believe it's really that close but I'll go with it.
Working on the stop bracket.
The head casting is not perfectly square as I needed it to be because of all the filler. It was about 1° off so to compensate for that I just milled the angle using an adj angle block.
Working on the rod holder that mounts to the quill bracket.
This is how my quill DRO used to mount. I kept that method the same but I went with a bigger bolt for for mounting the depth stop as you can see above, M6 to M8.
Also made a new mount & is why I cleaned up the cavity on the quill bracket, old vs new.