ironsmith89
Aluminum
- Joined
- Aug 29, 2014
- Location
- lennox, sd, USA
Hello, I am new to the forums but have been watching from the sidelines for years.
Here is my question, we recently acquired a used 1997 trak dpm3 bed mill at work. The machine is extremely low hours and in very good condition, or so we thought, upon arrival in our shop we noticed the ways were pretty dry and the lube system seemed to be oiling only the head ways so we decided to tear the X and Y axes apart. What we found is very large amounts of rust damage to the flat ways of the table and pitting on the flat ways of the Y axis. The rust on the table ways was mostly built up rust and came off fairly easily but it damaged the turcite on the saddle. The Y axis flat ways were very pitted in the center and it will definitely need attention. I'm a pretty good scraper hand and can handle the turcite repair, what I'm wondering is has anyone attempted to scrape the hardened Y axis ways on a trak mill? How hard are they? They are box ways on the Y and I mic'd them, they are within .0005 parallelism so I'm hoping I can scrape them straight down a couple thou to clean up the pitting and then of course re fit the saddle etc. Any help is greatly appreciated. I will try to get pics when I get back to work after the weekend.
Here is my question, we recently acquired a used 1997 trak dpm3 bed mill at work. The machine is extremely low hours and in very good condition, or so we thought, upon arrival in our shop we noticed the ways were pretty dry and the lube system seemed to be oiling only the head ways so we decided to tear the X and Y axes apart. What we found is very large amounts of rust damage to the flat ways of the table and pitting on the flat ways of the Y axis. The rust on the table ways was mostly built up rust and came off fairly easily but it damaged the turcite on the saddle. The Y axis flat ways were very pitted in the center and it will definitely need attention. I'm a pretty good scraper hand and can handle the turcite repair, what I'm wondering is has anyone attempted to scrape the hardened Y axis ways on a trak mill? How hard are they? They are box ways on the Y and I mic'd them, they are within .0005 parallelism so I'm hoping I can scrape them straight down a couple thou to clean up the pitting and then of course re fit the saddle etc. Any help is greatly appreciated. I will try to get pics when I get back to work after the weekend.