lennynpeter
Plastic
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- Mar 28, 2019
Hi,
For the past 5 moth I'm restoring a Bridgeport Series 1 knee mill (J-Head) and one of the next steps is to scrape the ways of the machine column. TO ease the process (handling the straight edge/scraping) I thought to lay down the column horizontal, level it and use a kingway tool copy to measure the way. Since the horizontal position is not the normal working position - has anyone experience with the effects to the column. I don't want to spend a lot of effort scaping the ways in, just to see when the column is vertical again, that all work was for nothing, since the column bend in one way.
Cheers,
Peter
For the past 5 moth I'm restoring a Bridgeport Series 1 knee mill (J-Head) and one of the next steps is to scrape the ways of the machine column. TO ease the process (handling the straight edge/scraping) I thought to lay down the column horizontal, level it and use a kingway tool copy to measure the way. Since the horizontal position is not the normal working position - has anyone experience with the effects to the column. I don't want to spend a lot of effort scaping the ways in, just to see when the column is vertical again, that all work was for nothing, since the column bend in one way.
Cheers,
Peter
