X3 conversion w/ stock ACME screws????

[cadmonkey]

I'll have to look in my Nook catalog when I get home late tonight and see if I am remembering correctly - I think metric screws are measured by their root diameter, whereas english by their nominal OD - thus a 12mm and a 5/8 are roughly the same (the root of the 5/8 screw stock is right around 1/2" thus I ground my journals to 10mm for 1mm shoulders at the bearings). I could be wrong (it happens a bit) so don't take that as gospel.

EDIT I was wrong - a 12mm x 2 Nook has a 10.6mm root diam, 12mm x 4 = 9.8mm root diameter. And the root diameter on the Nook 631's is .500"

Sorry - at least I verify my facts...
/EDIT

[Matt McColley]

Well I painted like a busy beaver tonight.... and have a friend coming over to help paint tomorrow...... and that means..... I'll have fullfilled (mostly) my honey-do pre-req. and can order the mill on Friday

Can anyone tell me if Grizzly ships their X3 mill assembled? Or does it come with the head removed?

If assembled, is the mill sufficiently secured to the base of the crate that I can tilt the crate without having the mill topple over inside the crate?

The reason I ask is because I have to get the sucker down into my basement, via. the bulkhead steps. If I put a pair of 2x8's on the steps to serve as skids, I can strap the crate and lower it down with my tractor bucket (give me hydraulics or give me death). But this will require leaning the crate over quite a bit.

Hmmmm....

[skullworks]

mine was held by two 1/4" bolts...

it held good - but crate was never stressed - it was always supported on a forklift.

[Crevice Reamer]

It's a pretty sturdy crate. The mill is securely bolted to the base. Make sure your strap is between the middle and the base as that is strongest point of crate. You COULD remove top and sides of crate and leave mill on skid.

You also could easily disassemble mill into 4 carryable segments: Base, table/saddle, head and column. Read up on disassembly here:

http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/projec...on%20Guide.pdf

The mill will come on an 18 wheeler. It will need wide enough streets to be able to get to you or you will have to meet driver with your tractor. I had to do this. The crate fit into the bucket of my neighbor's Kubota.

Grizzly's approx $100 shipping fee sure beats Novakon's $700 or Syil's $400. This heinous shipping differential is ONE of the reasons that I did not BUY the Syil SX3 and chose instead to roll my own.

CR.

[project5k]

yea, mine came all in one big chunk, all put together that is. you can try and do the skid thing, but that sounds like the riskier way to do it..

if you can, i would pull it apart and carry it. your gonna wanna take it apart to clean it up anyway, and if your gonna start your conversion right away, then you might as well have it apart...

[Matt McColley]

I bought my drill press from Grizzly a couple of years back so I know the drill wrt. truck shipment.....

I pitty the poor truck driver that tries to come down our skinny 800' gravel driveway in the woods. Even the propane guy got stuck this winter....

I've got a pretty good situation at work. I just have it delivered to the company and have the guys drop it in the back of my truck with a fork lift. I'll have to pull the truck cap for a few days....but that's not really an issue. I made quick change forks for my little tractor, so my thought was to rig the crate down the bulkhead with chains and straps, etc... Tipping the crate 30 degrees would put the hardware mounting the crate to the base to the test though, that's why I inquired about it.

Then again.....

We have an area (old garage attached to the little house turned office) that we use to store customer samples, maybe I'll plop the crate in their and disassemble the mill and take it home in pieces. Have to check with da boss on that one though. This would probably be easier, but I don't like involving to many people at work in my personal business.

Decisions, decisions....

[Crevice Reamer]

Grizzly paint chips really easily. If you disassemble at work--Wrap everything up in towels to protect it. Maybe you could clean off the red grease there too.

CR.

[Matt McColley]

thanks for the heads up guys....

we'll keep you posted...