I received the DRO kit I bought off eBay yesterday, and unfortunately, all three scales arrived with broken glass. The plan is to get the mill running as a capable manual machine first, and then use it to make the bracketry for mounting the servos. Once that is done, I intend to splice into the quadrature signal off the scales and feed it to KFLOP to implement dual loop control.
The seller says he will stand behind the kit and get me replacement scales. Until then, I'll withhold any names
I've done a bit of steel machining with the mill sitting on 2x4s on the floor, as I don't have a stand built yet. The project was a shorter spindle drive dog, as the switch from ISO to CAT requires one shorter dog.
And here's the temporary drawbar I cobbled together to get me by until the nice, heat treated part arrives from All Machine Parts. Yes, that's a 5/8" grade 8 bolt mated to the factory draw bar. I made 2" of 7/16" UNF thread engagement to join them, along with red loctite. So far, it's holding up well. If anything, I expect the threads will pull out of the factory side of the bar, as it only tested at 20 HRC when I checked it.
-Steve