I saw something bizarre today that I’ve never seen before and I’m curious what is going on or how it could happen.
I was looking at a Bridgeport series 1 machine and the Z/knee was visibly tilted to the left. It was clearly visible to the naked eye, so we put a level on it and it was stunningly out of square.
Shared album - Ralph Seguin - Google Photos
The mill was sitting on a measured level floor, so it has nothing to do with leveling.
We also put a level sitting on to of the y ways and it was clearly out of level/square.
Shared album - Ralph Seguin - Google Photos
The possible scenarios that I thought of were:
1. Someone reground the Z/knee or the Y axes and did a very, very bad job.
2. Z gibs are in wrong?!??
Anyone seen anything like this?
What is going on?
The knee moves up and down fine.
All axes move fine.
I was looking at a Bridgeport series 1 machine and the Z/knee was visibly tilted to the left. It was clearly visible to the naked eye, so we put a level on it and it was stunningly out of square.
Shared album - Ralph Seguin - Google Photos
The mill was sitting on a measured level floor, so it has nothing to do with leveling.
We also put a level sitting on to of the y ways and it was clearly out of level/square.
Shared album - Ralph Seguin - Google Photos
The possible scenarios that I thought of were:
1. Someone reground the Z/knee or the Y axes and did a very, very bad job.
2. Z gibs are in wrong?!??
Anyone seen anything like this?
What is going on?
The knee moves up and down fine.
All axes move fine.