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About spindle encoders now, is there a recommended one, or will any rotary ecoder that meets the specs be ok?

Thanks for that Gary. Is there something behind what you say?

"Confidence is the feeling you have before you fully understand the situation.
I have CDO. It's like OCD, but the letters are where they should be." are you sure this isn't dyslexia Tom?

Cheers Tom.
I have a couple of encoders on the back of old servo motors, i'll look at them, decide it's too hard, then buy one

Thanks for the replies Dave, Csnw and Tom,
It seems like whether the spindle encoder is used for threading or CSS, or both, that I need a better one. I'll look into that.
Is my existing MPG an elephant in the room that is being studiously ignored, or yet to be discussed?

Well I've bought an Acorn now, I hope I did the right thing....

Hi, I have done a bit of looking on the internet recently, and have landed here. I am not an experienced user of lathes and mills, but I do have both, and have been using Mach3 on my lathe (CQ6230) since version 3 of Mach3. It seems like a long time now :) The mill is a KR-V3000 knee mill. I also ha...