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New Special X2 Mill
Stilldrillin:
Second time lucky, Peter! ::)
Well done Arc, for acting so quickly..... :clap:
I understand your preference for the "drill" handle. My preference too. :thumbup:
Hope the developing friendship continues, smoothly...... :D
David D
Brass_Machine:
That's Awesome Peter!! :headbang:
Nice looking mill. I hope it works well for you. Now to see if I can get that column.... :smart:
Eric
John Stevenson:
Sorry Peter, what bit are we talking about ?
John S.
SamJo:
Seems I beat Peter and others on this one. My new SX2P from Arc left Leicester on Friday 18th and was delivered to me in Finland on Monday 23rd. The truck must have been racing through Northern Europe faster than TNT was updating the info on their tracking site. Pretty impressive! Arc was very easy and good to deal with before and after the delivery.
So far I've stripped and cleaned the machine plus changed the mains plug. I also had the motor and drive belt off and checked the preload on the spindle bearings, was OK. Running the machine for 10 minutes each at low / med / full speed I got no vibration or unhealthy sounds. Looks good. The base casting is a bit "hairy" but all the machined surfaces are OK and that's where it counts. I haven't checked parallelism and spindle rotational accuracy completely yet but so far haven't found any problems.
The compound table, then. :coffee: Like Peter, I've also got an issue there. The leadscrew handwheels are a bit wobbly and when you tighten the nylock nuts to take the slack away you actually have to tighten the screws so much they hardly turn any more and the table movement is rather jerky. I'm starting to consider taking the table back to pieces again and installing thrust plus ball bearings for the leadscrews. Anyway, I'd like to stay in the loop and know if the bearing mod is advisable. Any other advice on the table issue would also be welcome. Lapping the dovetails plus new gib strips in brass?
It's a nice little machine although a bit heavy at 70 kg so I'll have to wait until The Muscle Men drop by and help me lift it on the bench. Then I'll make the final adjustments on the gibs and start making swarf. I'm sure the SX2P will live up to my needs and give me countless hours of good service.
Jouko
SamJo:
Sorry, made a mistake in my previous post. What I meant to say was: order in Wed May 18th, shipment out Fri 20th and delivery Mon 23rd. Really fast, considering the amount of road miles and salt water between Leicester and my town in Finland.
Working on the leadscrews and dovetails.
Jouko
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