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| Brass_Machine:
Just saw this. Very nice! Eric |
| steampunkpete:
I also went the ARC Eurotrade replacement gibs route. Very pleased with the result and its cheap. The precious time saved meant that I could spend more time on making stuff. Looks like a near unanimous answer. |
| nrml:
Just as a word of warning to anyone new doing some research on the ARC brass gibs; they don't fit real bull mini lathes perfectly (at least they didn't fit mine). The cross slide gib was too thin and it didn't stop the twist. The top slide gib was too big to fit in. I filed the top slide gib down to size and used it but I ended up having to make a new cross slide gib from scratch. I guess that they are either made for Seigs (and that there are some significant differences between them and the real bull version) or the machining on mini lathes as a whole is so crude that there is great individual variation. I can't fault the build quality of the gibs for the price or ARCs customer service. |
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