itsmeBernie
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- Joined
- Jul 2, 2005
- Location
- Northern New Jersey
This info request should probably be in "General Discussion" as it would pertain to any machine, but here goes.
I got very lucky, and "made an offer" on an already inexpensive 42 inch Bridgeport table which was for sale locally.
It looked MUCH better than my current table in the photos, but in person, I realized I was VERY lucky. Someone had already begun work on resurfacing the table. It had been blanchard ground, to the best of my knowledge, looking at the very large radius grinding marks, approximately 18 to 24 inches or so. I will try to post pics that show them. Please correct me if I am wrong (after I get the pics posted in a few minutes). After measuring my current table, and a table of my friend, It appears this one had about .030 taken off of it at some point, or it was made years apart and to slightly different specs.
My Question is what would be a way, without another much larger milling machine at hand, to grind or cut the bevels at the edges of the T-slots again? I know I could just file them by hand, but I thought it would be nice to machine them properly. Maybe it makes no difference.
I already brought it to a friend who refurbishes machinery professionally to go over it for flatness etc, and it is really close to flat. It is also within .001 for thickness from end to end. It just needs scraping in, which he will do. It just saves me money to have some of this type of work done before he has to touch it.
I did a LOT of searching here and elsewhere for threads about this already, but if anyone knows of a thread that this is covered already, please let me know. I may have been a dimwad searching for it.
Thank You for any advice or direction
Bernie
I got very lucky, and "made an offer" on an already inexpensive 42 inch Bridgeport table which was for sale locally.
It looked MUCH better than my current table in the photos, but in person, I realized I was VERY lucky. Someone had already begun work on resurfacing the table. It had been blanchard ground, to the best of my knowledge, looking at the very large radius grinding marks, approximately 18 to 24 inches or so. I will try to post pics that show them. Please correct me if I am wrong (after I get the pics posted in a few minutes). After measuring my current table, and a table of my friend, It appears this one had about .030 taken off of it at some point, or it was made years apart and to slightly different specs.
My Question is what would be a way, without another much larger milling machine at hand, to grind or cut the bevels at the edges of the T-slots again? I know I could just file them by hand, but I thought it would be nice to machine them properly. Maybe it makes no difference.
I already brought it to a friend who refurbishes machinery professionally to go over it for flatness etc, and it is really close to flat. It is also within .001 for thickness from end to end. It just needs scraping in, which he will do. It just saves me money to have some of this type of work done before he has to touch it.
I did a LOT of searching here and elsewhere for threads about this already, but if anyone knows of a thread that this is covered already, please let me know. I may have been a dimwad searching for it.
Thank You for any advice or direction
Bernie
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