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WhooHoo! After lurking through all the threads on Precision Mathews machines, I decided to go with the PM932-PDF after selling my Grizzly G0705. I was not a big fan of the round column on the G0705, the accuracy just wasn't there, and belt changes were a drag...
After exchanging an e-mail or two with Matt (Who is just as pleasant as everyone says he is) I called up and ordered the mill plus a 4 inch precision vice. 7 Working days later and I had this...
Fortunately, I live on a farm and we have tractors and fork-lifts readily available. So I saved my $45 for lift-gate service. I was able to dangle the mill from one of the forks and poke it through my shop door. From there, the Harbor Freight super coupon bargain 2-ton cherry picker took it the rest of the way.
After a quick cleaning, I wired a plug to the machine and function checked everything. As expected, everything worked top notch. Needless to say, I am a very happy customer! I've got a few gun smithing projects coming ups and plenty of other random stuff that has been stacking up while I was in mill limbo. So hopefully I'll be able to post a few of those fairly soon.
I also ordered a few Igaging Dros from Davidh here on the forum, they arrived nicely packed and without a ding. I'm going to be installing those on the mill and my G4003G lathe.
Now for the questions that I hope the combined knowledge of the forum can help me with (Help Please!!!!) First, my forward/backward (Y) is out of tram. What is the best way of getting this trammed? Obviously I want to retain as much rigidity as possible, and Im not sure if shims are going to cost me a whole lot of rigidity.
Secondly, Inside the spindle, the keyway indexer (Little metal tab) for the R-8 collets' keyway broke off the first time I went to tighten a collet up in it. Unfortunately, this makes things very difficult to tighten up without spinning like a monkey on crack. So has anyone else had this problem? And more importantly, does anyone know how to replace the indexer? I don't want to go ripping things apart until I have some idea of how to do it!
Thanks Gentlemen!
After exchanging an e-mail or two with Matt (Who is just as pleasant as everyone says he is) I called up and ordered the mill plus a 4 inch precision vice. 7 Working days later and I had this...
Fortunately, I live on a farm and we have tractors and fork-lifts readily available. So I saved my $45 for lift-gate service. I was able to dangle the mill from one of the forks and poke it through my shop door. From there, the Harbor Freight super coupon bargain 2-ton cherry picker took it the rest of the way.
After a quick cleaning, I wired a plug to the machine and function checked everything. As expected, everything worked top notch. Needless to say, I am a very happy customer! I've got a few gun smithing projects coming ups and plenty of other random stuff that has been stacking up while I was in mill limbo. So hopefully I'll be able to post a few of those fairly soon.
I also ordered a few Igaging Dros from Davidh here on the forum, they arrived nicely packed and without a ding. I'm going to be installing those on the mill and my G4003G lathe.
Now for the questions that I hope the combined knowledge of the forum can help me with (Help Please!!!!) First, my forward/backward (Y) is out of tram. What is the best way of getting this trammed? Obviously I want to retain as much rigidity as possible, and Im not sure if shims are going to cost me a whole lot of rigidity.
Secondly, Inside the spindle, the keyway indexer (Little metal tab) for the R-8 collets' keyway broke off the first time I went to tighten a collet up in it. Unfortunately, this makes things very difficult to tighten up without spinning like a monkey on crack. So has anyone else had this problem? And more importantly, does anyone know how to replace the indexer? I don't want to go ripping things apart until I have some idea of how to do it!
Thanks Gentlemen!