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I just got off the phone with Kimoyo, he's picking up the mill later this week.

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Given the above I would think seriously before investing thousands of dollars into a benchtop mill. You can drop $8,000 to $9,000 into a benchtop mill quite easily and what you will have will not...

I counter balanced the head using two steel cables attached to a bar which runs under the head, its positioned about half way between the column and the front of the head. The cables run straight up...

I used 1 nema enclosure for the power supplies (Grainger) and a common 100amp service panel box from Lowes for the gecko's.

That sounds like the funky Z axis slide to screw assembly issue. Mine had .020 slop from the factory. The Z axis slide is not attached to the screw, thats the problem. There is a bushing bolted to...

The Z axis slide mod is mandatory in my opinion. Aaron designed that mod after I measured .020 slop in my Z. Note I have a Lathemaster mill with an early IH cnc kit not the IH brand mill but the same...

Don't overdue the spindal lock. If you tighten the spindal lock with the spindal turning at 2k you can hear when you have it too tight, mine is noticeably noisier when too tight and gets a lot...

I have this mod on my Lathemaster mill, there was a good .015 inch slop in the stock Lathemaster bushing, this mod took care of that.

It looks pretty but...here's my two cents worth after running flood coolant on my IH converted mill for the past two years.

Coolant Tank - My first fancy commercial 5 gallon coolant tank is lying...

I own a lathemaster, the 700lb brute you see following your link and HF just opened a store about 2 miles from my house last week so I saw there mill in person just a few days ago. The HF is no where...

Thanks! I read some months ago the misters were causing some serious health effects in shops. Breathing in coolant doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

Thats what I thought and I used a 100% synthetic last time with the biocides, (Tri-Cool) and man that stuff got ugly. Looked like l lasagna noodles floating around in the tank yuck!

I'm hoping the...

In my opinion yes, in fact I would say its required in my case. Some of my parts run 2.5 hours non-stop, thats asking a lot of this type of mill. The flood not only cools the part and end mill, but...

Thanks, yes Z has a big stepper and X/Y have servos with ballscrew mounted encoders.

About 6 months ago I converted my mill to cnc with the Industrial
Hobbies cnc kit. A month ago I broke the mill down to the bare
castings again to lap the ways and send some parts off for ...