These additional directions of movement add greatly to the potential jobs that can be performed on the mill. In addition, the modifications are available as a vertical milling column for the lathe and upgrade for existing vertical milling columns. There is also a XY Base and XYZ base version of the 8-way mill for those who want to purchase components of the mill separately. Digital readouts have become extremely popular in full size machine shops because they make the machinist's life so much easier. Now any Sherline mill can benefit from the same technology.
Any axis can be reset to zero at any time with the push of a button.
Now you no longer need to count handwheel rotations when dialing in larger numbers. Right now it is just available in inch increments, but a metric version will be out soon. The unit can also be ordered factory installed on any mill. The lathe will also benefit from the same digital readout technology we have developed for the mill. It will also offer three handwheel units so it can be used with a vertical milling column to read Z-axis travel when milling.