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Are you the sort who ever does that?
Suppose you have shelled out the money for (say) a new Chinesium mill vise, do you head straight for the mill table, and look for T-nuts, and start tramming?
Umm - so why do I first disassemble it into all its bits, and start peering at it all using a headband magnifier? Yep - that's what I did. Next, now that it's in pieces, I think I may as well put it onto my freebie granite surface plate, and practice all that "measuring up" stuff like Stefan does. I even get to thinking I need a "proper" quality dial indicator, and I wonder how good is the "engineering square" I got from eBay. Even when it makes it onto the mill table, would you try an check out how much it distorts in various ways when you tighten down?
There is something wrong with me!
Suppose you have shelled out the money for (say) a new Chinesium mill vise, do you head straight for the mill table, and look for T-nuts, and start tramming?
Umm - so why do I first disassemble it into all its bits, and start peering at it all using a headband magnifier? Yep - that's what I did. Next, now that it's in pieces, I think I may as well put it onto my freebie granite surface plate, and practice all that "measuring up" stuff like Stefan does. I even get to thinking I need a "proper" quality dial indicator, and I wonder how good is the "engineering square" I got from eBay. Even when it makes it onto the mill table, would you try an check out how much it distorts in various ways when you tighten down?
There is something wrong with me!