I appreciate that!

Thanks! :)

Thanks! It's important for me to hear the positive comments. All it takes is one whiner to ruin my day. I can take criticism when it's constructive, but people telling me I'm an idiot or I need to shut the F* up doesn't do anybody any good.

I agree. And I'm glad I can help. I am in the process of self teaching machine work and it takes a few "ah sh!t " moments! Thank you for the videos. Your one of the few I get excited to see put a new one out when you do!

Also, if they are hating on you, that means they are still watching enough to say something! Sometimes people don't know how to talk without sounding like an a-hole, or they just are an a-hole, in which case....screw 'em!

Thanks! I hope there weren't too many commercials.

No! I don’t mind the commercials

Could do with a chip screen though....

Thanks! And yep, I'm so glad I got DRO. I did a small run of deer hoists, (video coming soon, I hope) and the DRO made it so easy to repeatedly make the same parts.

Thanks! I'm pretty excited!

Thanks on both accounts! :)

Thanks! I'm excited!

I'm really impressed so far, even though it's only been a couple weeks.

Thanks Chuck!

Thanks! I'm a little in disbelief that I have it.

I felt that way when I got my lathe, and still feel like that actually. I keep waiting to wake up.

I might have to try that mix. It's good to hear you're happy with yours. :) Makes me feel even more confident in getting this one.

I am very excited! Learning speeds and feeds might take me a while... or at least a few more end mills! :) I'm quite surprised at how high a feed rate end mills like. With the big end mills I was using, I had the power feed maxed out on the long runs, and I think I could've gone faster! And the mill had less vibration that way, too.

Thanks! :)

Thanks Jim! :)

It is fun! :) It'll be more fun when I stop hitting the wrong control and crashing!

Heh, yeah, might be good to pick up some cheap Chinese end-mills for practice!

I think I know what you're talking about.... I have a vague memory of maybe Grimsmo mentioning them? I'll have to do some looking. If you find something, send me the link.

Wide Vision Metal Fab search "mill spindle light" in KZfaq and it'll bring up heaps of videos. 😉👍🏼

Ah! "Spindle" helps that search a lot. I was using searches like "Mill lighting" which gives results that I'd call industrial house lighting. Thanks bud! :)

Will do! Thanks! I never bought "good" end mills when milling with the little atlas lathe because there was so much slop, it was real easy to break tooling.

I'll add it to the list of videos. I need to make a few latches, so I can record that sometime in the "near" future.

The accordion cover that came with it for the Y axis doesn't work with DRO installed. Not sure what I'm going to do, but so far cleaning it is no worse than cleaning the ways of the lathes.

LOL! Yep, something like that! :)

Howdy Juan! Good to hear from you! I'm not quite ready for world domination, but it's definitely a good start! :) I'm really impressed with DRO. I always thought it would be nice, I just didn't think it would be this nice. Backlash is no longer a concern when figuring in location, and accuracy is amazing. Figuring out the feeds and speeds is definitely a learning curve. The one thing I've learned is just because it says what speed to use online, doesn't mean it works in the real world. I'm a little surprised at how against people are with climb milling, and it's not the reason I broke an end mill either. I guess I should have been more specific as to what happened, but I crashed because I moved the wrong handle. I still have to think when grabbing levers, and sometimes I think wrong! :) One end mill met it's demise when I flipped the power feed the wrong way, and drove it right into the clamp. Sigh. Corncob end mills seem like a good idea to me, I need to look into those. I hope you're doing well!

Why would I want to put springs on it? It's a double acting cylinder.

dont think the top part is solidly mounted to that cilinder

Luckily none. I was fearing what would happen when an end mill snapped, maybe it'd go zinging into the wall. But nope, the broken piece literally just fell onto the table.

No, it fell off the truck about 40 miles from my house! :) Philippe's mill definitely did influence me to look at this style. And yep, climb milling is a great way to find out how much backlash is in the table!

absolutely! :) Especially my old files.

Precision Matthew PM-932M. I've only had it a couple weeks, but so far I'm very impressed with it!

It's been in the low 40's the last couple weeks. 28F for the low yesterday morning. Snow and 23 F in the forecast for Sunday! At least it ain't 105 F anymore! :)

No snow yet. Probably Sunday. The forecast is showing 23 degrees and 3-5 inches of the white stuff to the West of us. But we're right on the line, so it'll possibly make it this far East. Still working on the drill press, just slowly.

My WORD, son! And it still in the 70's and 80's here. The only respite we got was when the big blow blew through, even though the power went off for 5 hours AFTER it was all gone. 70 today with a breeze and lo humidity and it actually felt like 70 and the sky so blue it'd hurt your eyes! I've been gone from out there too long I guess. Now that you have a mill maybe the drill press will hop to it! We can only hope. Stay warm and GBWYall!

The accordion cover that came with it for the Y axis doesn't fit because of the added DRO. Not sure what I'm going to do. I did a little searching online, and saw a couple people use a piece of flat belt, so I might try that.

Hi, I will send you a picture to show you how to make the accordion fit and also how to cover the front of the ways, have a nice weekend.

It's as close to the size I needed as I could get. Basically, the 60 degree angle requires a bit more material to be wasted. If I needed a 90 degree bend, I wouldn't have had to remove any.

I read the first 3 words of your comment and realized your came here to complain and take your anger out on me. I am not your therapist, or your whipping post.