tmccoy
Plastic
- Joined
- Jul 28, 2009
- Location
- Jacksonville, FL
Hey Guys,
This is slightly off topic, but since I usually only visit the gunsmithing area, I had hopes of not getting my question blown off in the regular forum areas.
I have a Grizzly 14x40 lathe, and had a part of the cross slide casting break on me. I was parting off a piece of stainless to practice barrel threading, and had the parting blade tip break which caused the parting blade to dive under the bar, and torquing the compound up, snapping the casted ring area that holds the clamp down screws of the compound to the cross slide. Ok, my fault for not being careful, but called Grizzly and they promptly shipped out a new Cross slide. The part I didn't think about, is how they fit the gibs to each cross slide/apron pair. After getting the new slide in, the original gib I have won't fully slide down into the slot, and after looking at it, it had been scraped in the fitting process. I don't have the capability to hand scrape, or to have one edge precision ground down, so I'm looking for opinions on where to go.
The gib is ~13" long, and sticks out about 1.5" too far. Part of me says, well, just shorten it, it would have contact over about 11 of 13", and since I am a very light personal user, it will never cause any problems. But another part of me thinks that maybe it won't have a very nice fit either and may over time wear the apron unevenly, but again, I'm a very light user. With the gib in tight, there is definitely no play anywhere, and maybe just shortening the gib down would work?
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Travis
This is slightly off topic, but since I usually only visit the gunsmithing area, I had hopes of not getting my question blown off in the regular forum areas.
I have a Grizzly 14x40 lathe, and had a part of the cross slide casting break on me. I was parting off a piece of stainless to practice barrel threading, and had the parting blade tip break which caused the parting blade to dive under the bar, and torquing the compound up, snapping the casted ring area that holds the clamp down screws of the compound to the cross slide. Ok, my fault for not being careful, but called Grizzly and they promptly shipped out a new Cross slide. The part I didn't think about, is how they fit the gibs to each cross slide/apron pair. After getting the new slide in, the original gib I have won't fully slide down into the slot, and after looking at it, it had been scraped in the fitting process. I don't have the capability to hand scrape, or to have one edge precision ground down, so I'm looking for opinions on where to go.
The gib is ~13" long, and sticks out about 1.5" too far. Part of me says, well, just shorten it, it would have contact over about 11 of 13", and since I am a very light personal user, it will never cause any problems. But another part of me thinks that maybe it won't have a very nice fit either and may over time wear the apron unevenly, but again, I'm a very light user. With the gib in tight, there is definitely no play anywhere, and maybe just shortening the gib down would work?
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Travis