jwcolby
Aluminum
- Joined
- Oct 17, 2005
- Location
- Sacramento, CA
Hello all,
Everything on my 2H horizontal (Serial number 19-3519) was working just fine until this last Saturday while milling new KDK 150 series tool holders for one of my lathes. Friday the mill ran without a hitch. I started it up Saturday morning, engaged the X axis feed, pulled up on the rapid traverse handle, and it made a popping/grinding (hard to explain horrible sound). It's difficult to locate where it's coming from. Regardless of which axis or axis direction I engage, it does not feed and makes the sound when the handle is pulled up (which I have only done very briefly a couple of times since it can't be good). I took the cover off the feed rapid traverse drive housing. Both shafts are spinning away like they should when the spindle is engaged. I did notice that the table feed shaft (I believe that's the name of it - the one above the rapid traverse drive) stops turning whenever I engage any of the feeds. Any ideas what direction I should take now would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Jeremy
Everything on my 2H horizontal (Serial number 19-3519) was working just fine until this last Saturday while milling new KDK 150 series tool holders for one of my lathes. Friday the mill ran without a hitch. I started it up Saturday morning, engaged the X axis feed, pulled up on the rapid traverse handle, and it made a popping/grinding (hard to explain horrible sound). It's difficult to locate where it's coming from. Regardless of which axis or axis direction I engage, it does not feed and makes the sound when the handle is pulled up (which I have only done very briefly a couple of times since it can't be good). I took the cover off the feed rapid traverse drive housing. Both shafts are spinning away like they should when the spindle is engaged. I did notice that the table feed shaft (I believe that's the name of it - the one above the rapid traverse drive) stops turning whenever I engage any of the feeds. Any ideas what direction I should take now would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Jeremy