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15 Feb ’12
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got everything set up with smithy to pick up the mill next week and to swap it out with a separate lathe and mill, they are sending a 12x37 lathe
I wanted their MI 409 mill
but due to shipping issues with China they have no clue when they will be in, So I asked if they had any used Machines, that's basically what they are going to do with the granite I am sending back, they didn't have an MI 409 but they did have an lx 329 which is the previous model of the 409, exact same mill but just has a slightly smaller table, they are giving me a good discount on it and it will still come with the 2 year warranty and tooling package. Even has power feed on all 3 axises.
27 Aug ’14
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Nice! I would think that the power feed would come in handy in the event that you decide to do a CNC conversion.
15 Feb ’12
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That is what I was thinking, just need to figure out how to tie into them
15 Feb ’12
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started learning how to cut threads the other night, holy crap there is a lot of math to that
27 Aug ’14
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Haha fun right? Look for some tables and that'll help a lot. The problem is you're usually not doing a production run where threading on a lathe is required so you only do it once every few years after you've forgotten and have to re-learn how it's done.
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