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Care and feeding of new mill-drill
I have a rebranded Rong Fu 31 (I thinkg) that is hopefully getting off
to a good start. I am open to do/don't suggestions on oiling etc. Dumb question: for practice, I aligned my vice using a dial indicator. It was fairly smooth, but not something I would want to do every day. Should I be concerned about leaving the vice in place for long periods? I would hate to find rust where there was once a nicely machined table Is there a trick to mounting an indicator on the spindle? I put it in a chuck. Is there a better way? Speaking of the table, most of it is quite clean. There are a couple of small dings that I assume will be best honed or lapped away. What should I _not_ do? Before even checking prices, I knew about the tool change, head height, registration woes of round column machines. I can live with it (670 pounds was quite sufficient for me and my engine hoist), but will welcome ways to reduce the hassles. One of the more interesting suggestions was to use a collet chuck. My problem is that google returned so many hits as to be useless. Can some kind soul who knows what is going on provide a link to the right gizmo (or refute the idea)? An edge/center finder is on its way. For most things, layout lines will probably be more than sufficient. Otherwise, I am thinking of drilling a reference hole for "when" I get lost, and then working relative to it. Reading suggestions are welcome. Bill |
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