07-08-2012, 07:33 AM
I feel your pain DA. Unfortunately that is part of the price of our import machines. If they were perfect, then we wouldn't be able to afford to buy them anyway. 
I fought a similar problem with the cross slide on my lathe for 10 years. I finally got up the nerve to try hand scraping the dovetails to take off the high spots. It's nice to have the smooth full range motion now that it should have had when it was new.
But I've learned that it comes with the territory, and it is to be expected. But if I didn't have my import machines, I wouldn't have any at all - and that wouldn't be any fun at all, now would it?
So posting fixes like you are doing, serve to help others that might be in the same situation. Thanks for that.
Willie
I fought a similar problem with the cross slide on my lathe for 10 years. I finally got up the nerve to try hand scraping the dovetails to take off the high spots. It's nice to have the smooth full range motion now that it should have had when it was new.
But I've learned that it comes with the territory, and it is to be expected. But if I didn't have my import machines, I wouldn't have any at all - and that wouldn't be any fun at all, now would it?
So posting fixes like you are doing, serve to help others that might be in the same situation. Thanks for that.
Willie
Willie