Had an X3, gave it to a brother at church.
Considered it had soft metal in the bearing column tube.
As received, the mill motor was only mounted with 2 bolts, which
I corrected. Still an okay mill, better than a round column mill.
The round column mill along with x3 are long gone.
3 years now using the Enco square column mill, Grizzly has a similar model,
they both use the same bearings in the column. I am currently replacing
those bearings. Might have abused it with some heavy cutting.
Charl
Considered it had soft metal in the bearing column tube.
As received, the mill motor was only mounted with 2 bolts, which
I corrected. Still an okay mill, better than a round column mill.
The round column mill along with x3 are long gone.
3 years now using the Enco square column mill, Grizzly has a similar model,
they both use the same bearings in the column. I am currently replacing
those bearings. Might have abused it with some heavy cutting.
Charl
I found it on Craigs List but it was not cheap. I had been looking for quite a long time and this one was in good shape and had come out of a lab that was working on an implant. My only regrets is that I can not use Mach3 with it as that seems to be where everyone is going. As for making parts and getting into CNC and Machining which I have never done before, I was able to learn quickly and am able to program the machine for basic operations. It has a Acu-Rite MillPwr 3 III control that is easy to learn. I have been able to load .dxf files from AutoCad, conver .stl files to g-code and mill a few parts with not too much trouble.
