On 2011-06-16, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:20:06 -0500, Ignoramus16551
wrote:

On 2011-06-15, Karl Townsend wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:02:36 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:53:57 -0500, Ignoramus10056
wrote:

It took about an hour, but I am finally done, trammed it with a dial
indicator. 0.001" over about 4 inches. (diameter of the circle that
the indicator makes when attached to spindle).

i

Only .001?

Why did you bother? Thats pretty far out.

Mine is trammed at .0003 at 8" and its Almost ok


Shrug

Gunner

You should let Iggy know getting it this close is ten times the work
of getting within .001 over 4 inches.

I fiddled with my Large Super Max till it was --O--O-- (that's an
arrow through two balls, or "dead nuts", an official engineering term)
and then drilled and installed a taper pin to keep it there.

I will try using the mill, trammed as it is. This is a "many times"
improvement over what I had when it was untrammed.

Are you sweeping a tiltable head to zero, Ig? When I hear the term
"Tramming", I think zeroing the table to the head.

The head is not tiltable like on a manual Bridgeport, but there is a
little cam that lets me "tilt" it by 0.5 degree or some such, just to
do tramming.

i

(Just clarifying my newbieness, too. What's the terminology, guys? It
wasn't covered in Briney's _The Home Machinist's Handbook_)