I had time to rethink my previous post | |
Ok...let's try this again. Being as it's that time of year...being of good cheer & whatnot...
I'm going to make a few assumptions here (I know what assuming gets a person...)
One, the workpiece is too large for the available travels...
Two, you are the operator & not the owner...
Three, you are an operator & not a machinist...
DO NOT cut down your table!!! Don't even attempt this! There are several reasons I say this...the most obvious being that your table will be WORTHLESS after this job is finished. Your machine doesn't have long enough travels to cover every square inch of the table, so you'd just be cutting a big rectangle in the middle of your table. Not to mention your newly surfaced rectangle wouldn't have a proper finish or tolerances for perpendicularity & squareness. Your table will lose massive amounts of rigidity & will flex an inordinate amount...possibly causing it to bind during travel, due to the ballnuts on the X axis screw twisting +/- relative to the Z axis, or the carriers for the rails doing the same.
Why would this even be an option you would consider???
If you need more Z clearance, why not make a custom riser you can lift your column with?  |