Make your pass on both measurement areas, without touching the cross-slide in between. Stop the machine at the end and measure, then wind the carriage back and do another cut as needed.

Since the DRO magnetic strips are directly attached to the cross slide, the effects of backlash are mitigated. [Igor] has just such a manual lathe and built his own mini DRO unit from scratch a ...

Shoppinglist Cross slide To make a cross-slide with an X axis and an Y axis you need some rails or diffent thing to slide the equipment. You also need something to adjust it with. You may adjust it ...