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Milling Plate for a Sherline

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DMIOM:

--- Quote from: kwackers on June 22, 2010, 02:44:05 PM --- Is your plate flat? Like *really flat*? Alternatively is there a high spot on your table?  .........As an experiment, put a small washer under each bolt (to prevent the bottom of the plate touching) and see if that fixes it, if it does then it would definitely point to a bowed plate.
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or a crown on the table.

Another possible cause for the plate distorting the table would be if the hole spacing didn't match (could have same effect as just veneering one side of a piece of wood).

Dave

Bernd:
My money is of either the plate not being flat or the table not being flat.

Run a fine toothed file over the table to make sure there are no burr's on it. Also check the bottom of the plate on a piece of glass to see if it is flat.

Bernd

sportandmiah:

--- Quote from: DMIOM on June 22, 2010, 03:16:31 PM ---
--- Quote from: kwackers on June 22, 2010, 02:44:05 PM --- Is your plate flat? Like *really flat*? Alternatively is there a high spot on your table?  .........As an experiment, put a small washer under each bolt (to prevent the bottom of the plate touching) and see if that fixes it, if it does then it would definitely point to a bowed plate.
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or a crown on the table.

Another possible cause for the plate distorting the table would be if the hole spacing didn't match (could have same effect as just veneering one side of a piece of wood).

Dave

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Bingo. Even though my screw holes were over sized, I enlarged them even more. The holes were not precisely lined up (barely), and a couple of the screws were hitting the edge of the hole, just enough to cause the cross slide to bind. Problem solved! Thanks to all for the help!

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