07-20-2014, 12:19 PM
Yes, that 13" vice weighs about 300 lbs judging by how far the car settled with the vice in the trunk/boot. The hoist tells me it weighs more, but I think it just likes to complain.
The shaper table gib is on its last legs, it pulls up to snug and is all the way up as far as it can go. Also found some weirdness I didn't expect - the table has sagged, but sagged upwards instead of down, about +.015 front to back. The vice is shimmed with paper for now.
Looking at some videos, their DOC is as much as 2 inches. I'd need to take some slop out of the feed mechanism to accomplish anything like that. Could have used it a couple months ago.
Definitely different to run than the other machines. Turn it on and all this "stuff" starts moving, and moving fast and sudden. It'll getcha if you don't watch out!
The shaper table gib is on its last legs, it pulls up to snug and is all the way up as far as it can go. Also found some weirdness I didn't expect - the table has sagged, but sagged upwards instead of down, about +.015 front to back. The vice is shimmed with paper for now.
Looking at some videos, their DOC is as much as 2 inches. I'd need to take some slop out of the feed mechanism to accomplish anything like that. Could have used it a couple months ago.
Definitely different to run than the other machines. Turn it on and all this "stuff" starts moving, and moving fast and sudden. It'll getcha if you don't watch out!