I got mine in 2005 and tons of issues, I have a ongoing post here about excessive runout with the chuck and precision ground round SS stock.
I could actually push on the chuck and get major defection. I was told to take the spindle pully nuts off and tighten the lock rings to remove excess play. That helped a LOT on the chuck defection.
A while ago I started to do long stock and was seeing taper type cuts, I ended up moving the tailstock a hair to correct it, now it's within my tolerance of under 2 thous.
On this machine EXPECT to spend lots of time fiddleling with the machine to correct all those issues from assembly and shipping.
After spending a year with this machine, there are just too many design flaws that pop up that prevent any positive feedback.
I am not a professional, zero training, but I have never been happy with the finish cut as well.
My newbie advice is to see if you can hire a pro machinist to come over and go through the setup.
Oh NAPA has green 3/8 wide industrial type belts that work much better than stock.
One thing I REALLY hate is to have to buy tools and goodies everytime I start a different project, next up, the rotary table.
Dave  |