Futaba Pulscale Dro Manuals

Help - I've recently installed an old Futaba Pulscale Model CH2A01 digital readout and scales for the X and Y axes on my Seig C6 lathe. The DRO and scales work beautifully except I don't have an owner's manual so I can't figure out how to change the readouts from mm to inches. Futaba M20MD07A Riihijarvi Ronja Thursday, June 7 2018 12:46 pm; Futaba glass scale Gary Bienvenue Wednesday, February 21 2018 3:04 pm. If you have any technical questions or wish to offer technical information about any Futaba units then fill out the form below.

Do they give false readings or does the display actually display an error message? If they are glass scales which I assume your Fagor has this is a common problem. Although it doesn't happen very often as in periodically many people do run into this. Most of the time it's cause by dirty scales. You use a cotton swap & denatured alcohol (isopropyl will work too, higher the% the better) to swap the glass scales clean bh reaching through the seals.

Try not to blow air as it may damage the read head if there's a lot of chips inside & will only blow oils/coolant around. Some scales can be disassembled if they are real dirty & you need to clean the read head too. OK, I have to apologize because I got my scale issues mixed up. The one I said was not responding or error alarming was for the one on the Victor 1640 I am also trying to revive. So lets begin again. This one just did not respond. I pulled the scale off the Bridgeport X axis and as soon as I began to do so I knew it was going to be bad.

Some one has let the table over travel and smashed her up. The scale is at least 36-inched long. I sat the thing centered on top of the table and could tell they failed to set the auto and hard travel stops so the scale would survive.

As soon as I tried to back out the mounting screw and seen it was elliptical in behavior I lost my hopes of this just being a cleanup. It pulled the wireds out of the sensor! Here is the pic.

The screws on both ends looked the same. I didn't get the other one in the pic. What can I pick up a scale for. Are there refurbs?

Never heard of refurbished scales & it may not be worth sending to Fagor for repair if they did offer the service. Where the wires got ripped off, is it covered with epoxy? Any possibility in soldering the wires back? If not, what kind of connector does your scale have? Hypixel password. The most common is the D-Sub 9 (looks like a VGA connector). You could buy a replacement, doesn't have to be Fagor as I'm assuming a Fagor scale is pretty expensive.

Best bet is to contact DROPros to get a replacement scale. They sell Fagors so they should know exactly what will work for a replacement.

An Easson scale scale should work. To prevent future crashes, your scales should be an inch or 2 (travel not OAL) longer then the max travel of your axis. It would be best to get the correct size scale now that you have to get a replacement.