On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:09:43 -0400, Wes wrote:

I have no connection to this company.

http://www.machinerepair.com/scrapers.html

If you scroll to the bottom of the page, you will see a raw casting for a
25" x 3" wide raw casting that you can scrape in to use as a reference
surface. At $210.00 plus S&H it seems like a logical first step for those
that want to improve your old iron.

I figure if you can't get this thing scraped in, it is better to leave your
machine alone and deal with it's inaccuracy's.


Wes

scraping reference surfaces requires that you scrape three at a time.

scrape two to mate perfectly.
scrape the third to match one of the others.
check the third against the untouched other one.
then back through the three steps above until all three are a perfect
mate up to both others.
$630 is still reasonable though.

Stealth Pilot