[modeleng] Re: Mico Mill Problems
- From: "Lee Grant" <leegrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 10:13:57 +1000
Al
There may be to much material to grind of the table I think I will have to
dismantle it to find the offending part and work from there.
Lee
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allen Messer" <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 12:21 AM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Mico Mill Problems
> Lee, is the top of thetable out this much in all
> positions; at each end? It may be that you'll have to
> have the top of the table trued up on a surface
> grinder if it is out all over.
>
> Al Messer
> --- Lee Grant <leegrant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I finally managed to spend some quality time in the
> > workshop this weekend
> > set up the face plate and bored the two cylinders of
> > the marine piston valve
> > engine I am building. Because of a lack of swing on
> > my small lathe I couldn'
> > t bore the two piston valve cylinders so I had to
> > drill them on my Micro
> > Mill. The two bored cylinders turned out almost
> > perfect + or - 001" nice
> > finish the two drilled holes looked ok until I
> > turned it over the holes came
> > out 4mm of centre, a check with a 6" square on the
> > mill table to the column
> > found that the column is tilting forward I can fit a
> > 015" feeler gage at the
> > bottom of the square. This may be part of the reason
> > for the mills poor
> > performance. The column can tilt 45 degrees side to
> > side on a pivot and is
> > bolted to the base with 4 cap head bolts I could
> > shim it temporally for a
> > quick fix but I think I need to dismantle it and
> > have it machined correctly
> > This will probably make an expensive mill out of a
> > cheap one. Are there any
> > better ideas out there?
> >
> > Lee
> >
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