Its Up and Running

Discussion on all milling machines vertical & horizontal, including but not limited to Bridgeports, Hardinge, South Bend, Clausing, Van Norman, including imports.

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platypus20
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Re: Its Up and Running

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5 - the back
6 - the front
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Nice work. My 17x60 lathe was uncomfortably low for me, so I got some "drops" from a friend to make 6 columns for it. Basically 5" dia x 5" (or so, don't recall) 4140 (fancy! but that's what he said the drops were) spacers under the (roughly) 1.5" leveling adjustment feet. On each one I turned the bottom with slight concave center with ~1/2" lip around the outside to prevent rocking on concrete. The top has a divot sized and shaped to capture the screw foot. Puts it "just right", stable, and it's not going anywhere...
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I too revel in your success with this mill. A minor little thing. Out riggers.
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