{"id":2531,"date":"2015-06-07T22:38:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T22:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2015-06-07T22:38:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T22:38:19","slug":"cheap-z-stage-seln-lz-60-shengling-precise-machinery-co-ltd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/cheap-z-stage-seln-lz-60-shengling-precise-machinery-co-ltd\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Z-stage (SELN LZ-60 Shengling Precise Machinery CO. Ltd)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/zstage3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/zstage3.jpg\" alt=\"zstage3\" width=\"700\" height=\"682\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/zstage3.jpg 746w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/zstage3-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I picked up this cheap Chinese Z-stage on ebay, it was only 100USD and I wasn&#8217;t expecting much but it&#8217;s actually pretty well put together. It uses a standard micrometer head and I could fit both a Picomotor and the Chuo Seiki AMH-13 in its place (which works well).<\/p>\n<p>The micrometer head provided (pictured below) is easily the nicest micrometer I&#8217;ve seen come out of China. Very smooth and clean, there does seem to be a small amount of grit left in there but overall very nice (particularly considering the price).<\/p>\n<p>The linear guides also look very nice, and the overall operation of the stage is very smooth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/zstage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/zstage.jpg\" alt=\"zstage\" width=\"671\" height=\"616\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/zstage.jpg 671w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/zstage-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/zstage2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/zstage2.jpg\" alt=\"zstage2\" width=\"685\" height=\"556\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/zstage2.jpg 685w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/zstage2-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/micrometer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/micrometer.png\" alt=\"micrometer\" width=\"473\" height=\"188\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/micrometer.png 473w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/micrometer-300x119.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/micrometer2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/micrometer2.png\" alt=\"micrometer2\" width=\"875\" height=\"553\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/micrometer2.png 875w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/micrometer2-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up this cheap Chinese Z-stage on ebay, it was only 100USD and I wasn&#8217;t expecting much but it&#8217;s actually pretty well put together. It uses a standard micrometer head and I could fit both a Picomotor and the Chuo Seiki AMH-13 in its place (which works well). The micrometer head provided (pictured below) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RRoU-EP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2537,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}