Well my son and I got our new mill up and running. But... I got a few questions.
1) When were cleaning it up we went to remove the X table by removing the nuts on the left and turning it all the way to the right. When the leadscrew disenganged the table refused to moved in either direction! We had to finally remove the lead screw by removing the right hand side of the table and tap it slightly with a rubber mallet back to the left. It finally loosed up and we removed it from the left. Has anyone else had this happen?! After clean-up everything now seems fine and we can even remove it normally now, but what would casue it to bind like that, swarf?
2) When the engine runs at the higher rpm it is pretty darn loud... you can hear some gear chatter or something too. Is this normal?
All in all it seems like a pretty good deal. X backlash was only .0035 and y was .0025. The z just sucks in fine tuning. I even had a situation where it "slipped" after I put it into position with the fine tuning screw. Is that normal?
We made 2 test cuts into some aluminum at about 1/16" with a spindle speed of about 1500 rpms. Seemed to cut pretty smooth.
Thanks for any response to the above 2 questions. By the way it is a HF model. Got it on sale in the store for $449. Looks to be worth the money...
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