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Hi All, A few years back I completed the DRO installation on my mill by adding the Z Axis to the head, that is my mill is a bed style where the head raises and lowers not the knee or table. However, I found it not be as useful or at least user friendly as I thought, mainly due to the fine...

I kept calling this a brake in the POTD.. sorry. brain fart. I wanted a tool less lock. It originally came with a hex cap bolt. I created a new one with a tool less design, but it required an enormous amount of torque to pull the casting tight. A horrible desing. I always noticed in Utube videos...

I was trying to avoid pulling the vertical head apart but now I have doubts about the bearings. Could anyone tell from the video if in fact they are buggered and maybe from the photos how the hell I get in there?

My Craftsman Drill Press (113.213150 - Made in Taiwan) has a lot of play in the quill, especially at at the full end of the travel. This play is greater along the X axis (in mill terms) than along the Y axis. (More side to side than front to back.) Yesterday, I finally got around to taking the...

My collets have been rough going up in the spindle . I looked up in there and the little R8 aligning grub screw is a little bit galled over. I'd like to remove this grub screw but can't figure out how. I removed the quill base but see no way to get at the grub screw. I called Matt earlier this...