mini mill

[dallen]

the second piece of machinery that I purchased was a mini mill, and as the great tool god in the sky would have it I got one that was in pretty sad shape I later came to find out. what I mean is that the Y axis was in pretty sad shape this is one of the things that I found out only after getting my larger mill, (wish it was a bridgeport but its not) but it works for me.

Anyway today in a moment of madness I decided to fix this problem and now the mill is in parts laying in several different places. But the main pieces that I was concerned with this morning are on its big brother both mills came from Wholesale Tool my larger one is a ZX45.

heres a shot of what I am working on at the moment.

   

the problem was that when I would adjust the gib on the saddle for the Y axis with it completely one direction when I tried to move the saddle it was it would be either way to tight or too loose.

So I aligned the base on the mill table and indicated it off the back end of the dovetail on the base then I checked the Y axis and found that it was pretty close to being parallel but was running off to one side. this is where broke out the dovetail cutter and re cut the slide.

have to check a couple more things like is the X Axis going to be square now, will find out about that one in the morning. also will the column stand up straight as I also recut that area as it looked like it had been machined with aa angle grinder.

hopefully more photos tomorrwo

DA