05-09-2012, 09:12 AM
(05-09-2012, 08:14 AM)stevec Wrote: Dave J, excellent work, just curious though, I wonder what was wrong with the scale mounted on the rear of the table?
Hi Steve,
With the scale on the rear you loose around 35mm travel and this mill only come with around 200mm as it was.
From factory they had stops set up to stop any damage to the scale, but it limited the travel to 160mm.
I have also extended the Y axis travel out to 280mm so I didn't want the scale on the rear eating up my hard work so to speak. I will post about that latter.
For a mill that has 600mm X travel you would thing they would give you a bit more Y travel than 160-200mm.
With the 600mm x 280mm travels now it's a lot more comfortable using it as your not limited in the Y. It is also a horizontal mill so you need a bit of travel using collet chucks in the horizontal spindle.
Dave