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sbwhart:
Hi Darren
Whot your doing when you Tram the head is setting it up square with the table in the x and y, there are variouse ways of doing this, I'll probably do mine tonight so I'll post a phots, :worthless:
you can buy bits of kit to tram a mill up that cost up to £100.
John has a design for making a supper accurate simple to use Tram, it will be well worth following his project when he posts it.
Cheers :wave:
Stew
Darren:
Thanks Stew,
I understood tramming but not a tramming tool. I though a simple dial gauge was used in setting up.
I shall keep an eye out for this thread. Ashamedly I've never trammed my mill as I've not needed that accuracy as yet.
But I'm sure I will in time :thumbup:
NickG:
Stew,
Well done, glad you got it sorted :)
Darren, I haven't trammed mine either :wack: , it's good enough for the work I've done on it but I really should set it up properly. I want to add some digital scales so will probably do it when I do that.
Nick
bogstandard:
Darren,
Oh dear!, train set, ---- bless.
Or should that be 'bliss', as in 'ignorance is' :lol:
But until you have trammed the head up level, you will never know how the quality of your machining takes a big step up.
I hope to start next week.
John
sbwhart:
Few pics of the mill in action.
Finished T nuts there one of those bits of kit you can't have engough of. Just one tip if you make some:- bur the back of the nut up so that the bolt won't pass through it, you can crack your t slots open if the bolt passes through and acts as a jack.
Checked the slides over with a DTI the one i'm using is graduated 0.01mm ran it along the full length of the table x and y well within 0.01mm on the DTI
Used the same clock to check the Tram (train, bus, car what ever) it was out by 0.2mm adjusted it to within 0.02mm.
Just got to put up some new shelving and I'm back in action.
:D :) :D :) :D :)
Stew
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