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Clean your coolant tank thoroughly after you are done the job.

YouTube - Taig Backlash

Non loaded obviously, but still pretty good.

I have heard horror stories. If you are moving it together make sure everything is secured very well, undo shock is a killer to assembled precision components.

I took my small mill apart to move it. It is safer too.

Little video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xx1DJCL-Mg

The shop I currently work at has the nicest to work with hyd-rock slide saw, (it runs on box ways instead of a pivot) with digital indexing, and top and side work holding.

My old shop had a more...

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Ah sorry I didn't check the date. Good luck. Shame that is in spec... I guess they don't spend time taming the castings...

I have noticed alot of talk from machinists in here about how to MAKE it work, and you can make anything work; but if the machine is out of specification there should be no reason you have to.
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I clean my chicks down to the base every set up to avoid this :D

The OEM steppers are plenty powerful, it is the limitation of the stepper driving system, they are inherently slower than servos.

Unfortunately I think you are hooped to a slower feed rate or...

I work on a 4020 occasionally, I believe you have to change some parameters before you can jog the machine home after it was improperly turned off.

This is the way it is with the 4020 at least,...

1000mm/min is 39.37 ipm which is fine in a straight line... but as soon as the machine has to go around corners the cutting speed overloads acc/dec limits of the stepper motors causing lost steps.
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The tormach to my knowledge is not a high speed machine, you must lower the feed to within machine acceleration and cutting rate limits.

ktm666 speaks the truth.

Keep in mind finishing speeds are generally slower than your roughing speeds....

Were you hoping for just a little more?
What sort of tooling are you running? You may...

I can do that on my taig. I just have to take into consideration, travelling the same direction to spot the holes on each piece respectively.

This machine has ball screws and that is probably not...

Nice job. Handy failsafe.

Be wary... if you are running lots of flood coolant near your running compressor.

It will suck up all the moisture.

I am interested, I can see what your are trying to accomplish, I am in progress of making some trucks myself right now.

Put a heatsink on it.

Does wonders.

You can plot the points of a true involute from the base circle by the method of conventional drafting described in the machineries handbook.

Then calculate a standard circular thickness (this is...

The cabinet is actually all wood construction with a fiberglass basin.

The z axis cover is a heavy duty bicycle tube.

The variation in surface finish and size of the nuts was able to just be...

I took a browse through your thread, looks good.

Here is a full picture of my enclosure.
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/5959/dsc02626ad4.jpg

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/3364/dsc02624xa9.jpg

In action.

It is unbelievable what this machine can do for the price.

I bought some 1/4" t-nuts from msmaster carr....

Too bad they were for 5/16 slot :withstupi

So I milled them down.

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/7563/dsc02623lc8.jpg

http://purecomponents.ca//Media/MOV01133.MPG

Video.

I am employed as a draftsman but I have operated CNC mills and setup/operated gear shapers.

I am milling out the exhaust manifold for my nissan 200sx as the divider is a weak point and is already practically destroyed.

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/5866/dsc01132dw9.jpg

Currently...

Fly cutters do amazing work when your machine is set up properly.

I dont know why you would really use anything else for strictly facing, minimum material removal.

Be aware carbide cuts with more pressure than hss.