Re: [gingery_machines] update: Harbor Freight XY compound remachining

Not bad! You'll prolly figure out a way to shim out that error anyway,
knowing you and you endless quest to 'get it right'!

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Rick Sparber <rgsparber@aol.com> wrote:

>
>
> I finished remachining the XY compound vise and lapped all ways. I did a
> pair of light cuts on the edge of a piece of 1/8" thick aluminum to test
> how
> close to perpendicular I got the X versus Y ways. The result was an error
> of
> 1/2 a thou in 2". Of course there is nothing I can due for the light duty
> of
> the compound but at least it is more accurate now and has a nice, smooth
> action. I did not refit the vise jaws but instead made a pair of
> parallelogram T nuts that drop in the top slot. The T nuts were cut from a
> pair of scrap ways from the compound.
>
> Rick
>
>
>

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