challenger
Stainless
- Joined
- Mar 6, 2003
- Location
- Hampstead, NC-S.E. Coast
My old Index mill has a severely damaged table. I've had this mill for many years but it's been unused by me. I recently got a hair to get it running so I disassembled and cleaned it and am about to paint it and reassemble. The table has a lot of damage from past users and much of the T-slot areas are unusable. Is it practical to put a a piece of aluminum on top of the table as a permanent pallet or is this an all around poor idea? I bought is slab of 1" Fortal plate Thats the size of the table way back when I bought the machine. It's Blanchard ground fwiw.
I'm not looking to get high precision results from the machine but don't really want reliable unreliability from the table twisting etc. I'm not a professional machinist by any means so please excuse my ignorance.
Thanks for the advice.
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I'm not looking to get high precision results from the machine but don't really want reliable unreliability from the table twisting etc. I'm not a professional machinist by any means so please excuse my ignorance.
Thanks for the advice.
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