I'm now getting into work that requires me to flip the part more than 2 times. One side of the part has to be dead on or the work is trashed. It's taken me almost 5 - 15 mins sometimes to set this up and most of the time it's a little off (0.01" - 0.02"), plus my vision in my left eye isn't so great and puts stress on my right.

At the moment I'm using a little magnifying jeweler eye piece to set the X & Y. So looking over the Tormach site I see the probe and was curious what the users have to say about it.... ?


Next I see they offer a replacement tip and wondering why. If the probe is suppose to stop the machine from moving once touched, how could you break a tip ?


Last, I'm not seeing much info available on it and wanted to know how it works for setting up the X & Y coordinates. Say if I had a 4" x 4" x 1" height block, would I zero out the Z first then let the computer do the rest or am I having to jog it to each corner myself ?


Or do you recommend a different piece of equipment that will help me ?




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