DocsMachine
Titanium
- Joined
- Jan 8, 2005
- Location
- Southcentral, AK
A friend of mine is making a trip from Alaska (where I am) down to California, and I'm currently making arrangements to have him deliver and then pick back up a couple of parts at Carr's shop in Vancouver, to have them ground.
The important one is the bed of my Springfield lathe, which is not hugely badly worn, but enough so I'd like to have the work done. The other two are the top casting and ram of an old Stockbridge shaper (kind of a waste of money but it's either that or throw the thing away) and the table and saddle of my Nichols mill, which is worn very badly and ruins the accuracy and finish of this otherwise nearly perfect machine.
One of the other things I was thinking about was having the top surface of the table of my Exacto mill done:
I know a lot of that damage can't be erased with a pass through the grinder, it's just too deep. But I think 10-15 thou off the top would clean it up considerably, and get rid of the vast majority of just the little dits and dings and nicks that cover the whole dang thing.
What do you think? Should I bother? I realize it'd be mostly cosmetic, but on the other hand, just a few thou off the top shouldn't cause any warpage or springing as stresses are relieved, should it?
The truck and trailer are already making the trip, and I don't necessarily 'need' the machine for the next month or two, so I suppose my question is, is there any real drawback to doing this? (I also wanted to get the top surface of the Nichols table done- would I be risking warpage from released strains?)
Doc.
The important one is the bed of my Springfield lathe, which is not hugely badly worn, but enough so I'd like to have the work done. The other two are the top casting and ram of an old Stockbridge shaper (kind of a waste of money but it's either that or throw the thing away) and the table and saddle of my Nichols mill, which is worn very badly and ruins the accuracy and finish of this otherwise nearly perfect machine.
One of the other things I was thinking about was having the top surface of the table of my Exacto mill done:
I know a lot of that damage can't be erased with a pass through the grinder, it's just too deep. But I think 10-15 thou off the top would clean it up considerably, and get rid of the vast majority of just the little dits and dings and nicks that cover the whole dang thing.
What do you think? Should I bother? I realize it'd be mostly cosmetic, but on the other hand, just a few thou off the top shouldn't cause any warpage or springing as stresses are relieved, should it?
The truck and trailer are already making the trip, and I don't necessarily 'need' the machine for the next month or two, so I suppose my question is, is there any real drawback to doing this? (I also wanted to get the top surface of the Nichols table done- would I be risking warpage from released strains?)
Doc.