When you starting painting, get a small touch up paint roller kit from Home Depot ( $3 or $4 dollars ) use your brush in tight places and where you can use the roller. This will not leave brush marks and will look good on your milling machine.
as far as the advice to use oil on your mt-taper, it is not a good idea--at least get a spindle drive nut like the one I sent a picture of in reply #91 on page 4 or 5. then if your arbor doesn't have the two drive slots--just grind them in. then you won't have to worry about your taper spinning and won't have to over-tighten your draw bar. *most arbors have the drive slots on them. Dave
Yes Uncle Buck, please send me those bearing numbers and let me know if you bought your bearings from a parts supplier or from a store like autozone. Thanks all.
Has anyone here tried using Press-n-Peel Blue (PnP) toner transfer paper to create metal tags for your machines? The reason I ask is because if you look carefully at the pictures I have posted in this thread while disassembling my mill you will notice that I am missing the "change - o - matic tag". The tags I do still have are not in the best of shape.Any thoughts on this process would be greatly appreciated.Thank you.