Setting Up My PM935 Mill

[EdK]

(12-30-2015, 06:56 PM)Highpower Wrote: When I removed the knee from mine I was by my lonesome. I cranked the knee all the way up until the screw was just sitting on top of the bronze nut. (Still plenty of dovetail left to hold it in place.)  Put a couple of lifting straps through it and hooked up to the cherry picker to take the weight off of the screw/nut. I removed the jib (didn't want to break it) and lifted the knee straight up off of the dovetails. Re-installed it in reverse order (again by myself). Just had to guide the knee into position with one hand and operate the cherry picker with the other.  

Willie,

So there's no mechanism to prevent cranking it all the way off of the screw by mistake? I think the Bridgeport mills have something to prevent that. At least that's what it sounded like based on some info My Google found for me.

Ed