I don't know if it is fair to assume that everything from Taiwan got worse because of this mismatch. I think that they made a mistake by picking a 21mm hex size for the drawbar head. I looked at my old RF25 drill/mill and the hex size there is 17mm. Obviously this is a bigger machine with more power so the main spline shaft is beefier so someone thought that "bigger is better" and used a 21mm hex head. I believe that standard BP drawbar size is 3/4" or 19mm which might be an easy fix for this machine. Precision Matthews (QMT) - are you listening?I would expect this kind of thing from mainland China, but not from Taiwan. Seems like the Taiwanese machines are getting pretty sloppy in some areas. The original J-head on my PM935 was flawed and had to be replaced.
Otherwise no complains so far. The machine makes lots of chips fast... The surface quality of machined parts is beautiful and it was easy to tram in the X direction and the column traming (Y direction) from the factory is dead on. I am getting the hang of the machine usage while fixing and improving around. I like it!
Next tasks are:
Coaxial light
Digital RPM indicator
3 phase motor and VFD install
Permanent install of a pneumatic power drawbar wrench.