ArdanWildan
Plastic
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2021
Hi, it's my first post here in this forum. I'm from Indonesia and planning to start machine reconditioning business here in Indonesia. I would like to ask some questions regarding reconditioning big machine with long ways, in my case plano milling machine (I'm not sure what it should be called here) because I couldn't find any thread discussing about what I'm going to ask.
There is an ad selling this plano milling machine for very affordable price (I attached the pictures from the ad but I need to blur the watermark of the company). I'm planning to buy it and convert this machine into surface grinder to grind lathe's bed. The problem is that this machine might need to be reconditioned itself. One part that looks bad is the bed. I'm concerned that it might need to be re-grinded or re-scraped to make it flat. But the option to re-grind it seems to be imposible to do it here.
The T-slot bed's length is 3 meters, and the v ways are 5 meters.
So my questions are, is it possible to manually scrap the long v ways? Do I need 5 meters straight edge to scrap it? Is it doable? Where to start to tackle this? Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
There is an ad selling this plano milling machine for very affordable price (I attached the pictures from the ad but I need to blur the watermark of the company). I'm planning to buy it and convert this machine into surface grinder to grind lathe's bed. The problem is that this machine might need to be reconditioned itself. One part that looks bad is the bed. I'm concerned that it might need to be re-grinded or re-scraped to make it flat. But the option to re-grind it seems to be imposible to do it here.
The T-slot bed's length is 3 meters, and the v ways are 5 meters.
So my questions are, is it possible to manually scrap the long v ways? Do I need 5 meters straight edge to scrap it? Is it doable? Where to start to tackle this? Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.