First off, I have the ability to limit access to my shop if needed. I don't have a problem with the machine being used properly and the head angles changed for a project. I am trying to determine if just using it could change the angle that much. I also have made it known to anyone using my shop that if they don't know how to put the head back then I will gladly teach them. I will not tolerate laziness!
This is not "new news". The angles are not set with taper-pins. Clamp bolts of varying tightness, rather.
If users were NOT so trained BEFORE being allowed the keys? There is an open question as to whom is being so "lazy" as to have managed to MISS that awareness by a margin so wide as to justify the generation of an "international incident" over the surprise in it.
You also manage
safety for "anyone using my shop"? Just HOW?
A BirdPort has neither the space for a less "lazy" clamp, nor the mass to anchor it to if attempted. It subcontracts the labour of periodic tramming, all-axis, to a "mill hand". Not just the one. ANY such that mess with it.
They ALL need to know this. It is not as simple as a drillpress, water fountain, light switch. Or hammer.
Most hands historically being PAID for that effort, else having a klew why it is wise to be cautious, there isn't anything resembling an armed revolt over that, nor even a noisy strike with bloodshed in the streets.
Snarky remarks about undernourished BirdPorts is all you get, and even that not reliably.
Just Deal With That, "run what you got", and
check tram before making chip. The valiant little BeePee doesn't KNOW that stouter mills even exist, nor would give a shit if it did do. It just makes such chips as it can with what it has.
Surprise number two? That is true of ANY size or type of mill. Or any other Machine Tool.
If "always exactly the same as I LEFT last time" is your wont?
TiG welding the shop door shut wont help. The mill is what it is. A "flexible" mill, and of modest means.
Just TiG weld the Mike Foxtrot JOINTS on it if you cannot "tolerate" that need of at least
paying attention to tram, in need of adjustment or not.
Or trade it for a horizontal mill.
They
cannot move what they do not
have to begin with.
Be aware that "lazy" so as to make use of a horizontal for some types of tasking easier done on a vertical mill can be an arcane form of laziness as has an
uncanny resemblance to Old Skewl
hard work.
Who'd ever ha' thunk it?
I did say "mill hand"?
Mayhap the shop door DOES need TiG welded shut?
From the OUTSIDE.