Manual lathe conversions - X axis limit switch mounting ideas sought

Not what I was imagining at all but now it makes sense what you described.
I was imagining more of a surface mount "box" held on by a bolt.
I'm going to open the cover and see how much room I have to play with under the cross-slide tonight and go from there. Hopefully the ones I ordered might actually fit but I may have to stick to the mechanical ones (at least for now)
M

Finally ready to try the inductive X-axis sensor (as usual switching from the micro switch to the inductive one somehow involved moving the x-axis drive motor from the rear of the apron to the front, new pulley, new motor mount, cables and adding a cable drag-chain....)
Anyway, the one I received is a 3 wire, PNP NO shielded switch that I will be flush mounting under the cross-slide somewhat like Andy showed.
On the 7i76 I will leave the z-limit as is (mirco-switch) and just change the X
Field power to the sensor and tie the other to the ground on the 7i76
Signal to the 7i76 input that was on the receiving end of the microswitch before

Do I need to add a small pull-down resistor to the sensor output (1k?) or if the 7i76 ok without it?
Thanks
M

Steppers, never got around to doing s servo upgrade.
I've got another small 2048 encoder with index so later on I might look into installing it on the end of the ballscrew for better homing but really I like the limits for not bottoming out the ballscrew. I'm used to having to reset the tools I guess.

New pendant arrived as well so this weekend I'll try to install this sensor and start looking at wiring the pendant
Thanks again
M

Success... well sort of
Drilled and tapped the apron, installed the switch (can't get a jamb nut on the bottom so I'll have to locktite it in later)
Temporarily ran the wires over to the 7i76 and wired it in (wish the 7i76 had more than one place to grab a field gnd) and the switch works as the home / limit except backwards... as long as the cross-slide is covering it thinks its on the limit and when it reaches the drilled hole that marks the end of the travel it thinks it's clear

Anyway, I'm looking through the HAL for where to invert the switch, I found all the inputs (#4 in my case) and directions but nothing obvious as to reverse the operation of the limit

M

Perfect
hm2_5i25.0.7i76.0.0.input-04-not

Machined the X-plus slot another .05 so there's some room for error / overshoot before the ballscrew would bottom out. Tapped the end of the cross-slide to put an extension to house the x-minus "hole" and that's enough for tonight
With any luck I can mount the apron / cross-slide permanently this weekend with the new setup
M

Today i came (again) along a nice video that tried to proof repeatability of these sensors. I think in our cnc machines, especially when they are small and nicely "burried" in metal, we have better results then i saw in my 3d printers.