Great and beautiful machine. Hope the vise survived the crash without major damage. How doe you manage to keep the machine so super clean? Do you repaint it after each operation? ;-)
Beautiful machine! What happened during those last fateful seconds? Downfeed got stuck and machine took too deep of a cut? Vise bolts let go? Hope nothing got too seriously damaged!
I'm not quite sure myself. This happened at the very End (Just a couple mm to go). I'm guessing with the vibrations combined with a maybe slightly dull cutter (After ~800 cuts) the force just got too high for the two bolts that held the vice in the T-slots. And so they just got pushed out, as if they weren't even tightened down. Luckily the only damage was to the tiles on the floor and a tiny dent at the end of the vice-spindle, where the handle attaches. No cracks in the vice, broken T-slots or anything like that.
I admire your machine
beautiful machine!
Great and beautiful machine. Hope the vise survived the crash without major damage.
How doe you manage to keep the machine so super clean? Do you repaint it after each operation? ;-)
Beautiful machine!
What happened during those last fateful seconds? Downfeed got stuck and machine took too deep of a cut? Vise bolts let go? Hope nothing got too seriously damaged!
I'm not quite sure myself. This happened at the very End (Just a couple mm to go). I'm guessing with the vibrations combined with a maybe slightly dull cutter (After ~800 cuts) the force just got too high for the two bolts that held the vice in the T-slots. And so they just got pushed out, as if they weren't even tightened down.
Luckily the only damage was to the tiles on the floor and a tiny dent at the end of the vice-spindle, where the handle attaches. No cracks in the vice, broken T-slots or anything like that.
Nice cuts. I`m not sure if it is correct or not, but I have made a tool to hold the toolbit so the bolt in the tool post won`t break the tool
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