Hello all: I have a Taig 2018 CNC mill, with three screws in the front to tighten gib for X axis. I tighten them but in 15 min its loose again. I do some...
Just to check, are you tightening the setscrews behind (in line with) the front screws? On some (all?) models with the front tightening gib the right and left...
Bingo Nick thats whats wrong . I was adjusting the setscrews and leaving off the larger sockethead cap screws. Thanks Nick ....... Mitch .... ... with) ... ...
... and chips don't get cleared as well. With coolant you get a mess. So, you add an enclosure to contain the mess, and then you find out that it washes oil...
... But then you also have to consider whether the higher speed really draws appreciably more current than the slower speed. If it's a stepper motor driven by...
Hi All, I was playing with the mill tonight. I was trying to square my vise to the mill and the spindle was moving enough that it was aggravating. I mount my...
... A while ago I built a dividing head based on a Taig headstock assembly and fitted a brake shoe between the back end of the casing and the worm wheel that I...
Ian I'm not familiar with the ER-16 spindle but if it uses a hex socket grub screw to lock the pulley in position like my standard one then some sort of...
... I did ask about the mounts earlier, are you going to offer them? In any case I think I would like try this. I want to do more engraving and carving....
Let us know if that fixes it over time. ... -- felice@... is Nicholas Carter and Felice Luftschein. See our homepage at www.cartertools.com/nfhome.html...
I don't know if it's the higher speeds or the longer accelerations getting up to speed, or if I need to adjust my gibs or what. But the faster I run it, the...
... getting ... I run ... back up ... There's a ... all four ... ipm and ... problem with ... that you ... draws ... motor ... with ... measurements, it's ... ...
I went with a very lo-tech solution... I had some screen door window clamps in my hardware drawer. The simple plastic kind with thumb nut and wide head screw....
Here's a whole mess of questions: Who's got a rotary table, and what do you use it for? What kind of accessories have you made for it? How often do you use it?...
For what I do it is almost a must have. I did refuse to buy one and ended up spending hundreds of dollars chasing mis-matched drives, servos and gearing...
... Hahahahaha! Vlad, that's very well-put. In some ways it'd be neat to have a machine like the ones on Star Trek where you just tell it, "give me this" and...
I can't speak to my Taig 4th axis yet... but the last shop I worked at had two of their six FADAL Workcenters with 4th axis. We were making parts for Dental...
... True - coolant does give you the option of making it much quicker though <G> As for the coolant mess, I'm not sure, I hurriedly ran a job on Sunday rough...
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Hi all, Thanks for the great Ideas. I like the simple clamp Paul used as well as the index plate idea. I think I have a new project on my list. I think I'll...
I have one but cannot comment as of yet(just got it). I am in the process of moving the mill building an enclosure and resetting up the mill(trmming it in very...
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