Stripping down the mill:-
I reassembled the mill after my quick look, plugged it in and checked that it all worked, only problem was with digital read out which wouldn’t switch off or Zero, well that can be sorted out later.

To remove the head:- disconnect from the wiring panel at the back of the machine. Wiring is not my cup of tea so I took loads of pics and labelled and made drawings as I made the disconnections, thankfully most of the cables were already labelled so hopefully this will help reassembly, only had to cut one connection I will have to remake the connector.

With the wiring disconnected the truncking was threaded through the panneling, but first the inspection hatches replaced over the circuit boards and things to protect them. The panelling was held on with four cap screws and lifted off exposing the vertical lead screw.
To remove the head it was lowered onto a wooden box to take the weight, the clamping nuts were slackened and the locking lug retracted, the nuts removed, a bit of a wiggle

and a pull at it was off.

Stripping the slides off was very straight forward just followed the instruction on the ARCEURO trade manual for the X3 machine

All the red grease was cleaned off, some of which had hardened off this was causing the rack and pinion locking lug for the tilting mechanism on the head to stick, this was sorted with a quick clean and a bit of grease.

Well so far I’m very impressed with the fit and finish of the machine far better than that on my 3 in 1 this is particularly noticeable with the jib, on the 3 in 1 there as rough as a bears back side.
Well I’ve got the weight down into more manageable pieces next job reassembly.

Thats me done for the night off to Manchester to see group called Kene at the Manchester areana

And my team wone 2 - 1

Cheers

Stew