Originally Posted by
MadMax
Yeah, I've started the gauging process to make my own gibs. They'll be ground from unhardened O-1. It seems to me that gibs should be less hard than the ways because they're more replaceable.
The crappy gib actually really surprised me. It blew my mind that so much got done right (nice surface quality on the ways etc) then it all went to crap on something so critical and unfortunately quite critical. It pains me to think that I'd be running such a bad gib on well ground ways which would ultimately wear them out pretty fast so I'm looking forward to putting in a good ground gib.
FLC: your description of outsourcing practices appears to fit. The X4 seems to be otherwise very well made. I saw some pretty significant damage to my gib which looks like rough part handling practices. Judging from the angle of the bash marks on the edges of my gibs, it looks like they're getting dumped into a common box which gets kicked down the stairs. When I put my gibs on a granite flat, I can find out of plane deviations as high as 0.005". It blows my mind that the gibs have rounded edges which would end up scooping chips between the gib and the way with no chip shield on the vertical feed.
I give up. I want my machine to work well and not wear out too fast so I'm getting my own gibs ground.
well i am going to be getting my x4 in a week, week and a half, i will make sure to check this out, honestly this is quite unacceptable for a machine at that price and in all honesty should be corrected and exchange at no cost by Syil china, i do understand that those are small Chinese machine but they are still worth 5.5k, so you should expect poorer performance compared to a 20k machine but you should still expect the same craftsmanship
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