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Where did you buy that from if you don't mind me asking? That adapter plate in the foreground looks medium handy.Picked up a small tilt & swivel milling slide for the 7x.... Have a job to do that needs an accurate slot milling....
Now I have to hurry up and wait for it to arrive.
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Where did you buy that from if you don't mind me asking? That adapter plate in the foreground looks medium handy.
Oh one of the eBay sellers right.Import job I'm afraid. Indian manufacture. It will do what I need whilst I sort what I actually want, which is three times the price for much better quality.
Oh one of the eBay sellers right.
I already have an import vertical slide which looks a bit massier than the one you've ordered but the bits supplied with mine to attach to the cross slide seem a bit less rigid than the plate supplied with yours.
I was planning on making a better adaptor plate myself anyway but when I saw your post I wondered if I could delay that job and get a plate from your supplier.
Thank you, appreciate the extra help there.Actually, funny you ask that, I noted that you COULD buy just the attachment plate on its own. Mount plate is £36.62p as a standalone.
Seemed easier for me to purchase the slide and mount plate as one transaction, rather than mess about. The plate is worth more to me than the overall price including the slide (slide works out at £75-ish) purely for the ability to use other slides and generally use it as a versatile mount for a good few different setups. Also noted they shipped it FedEx which was a surprise.
Try THIS LINK comes out at £49.90p shipped with the £13.28 shipping fee.
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Thank you, appreciate the extra help there.
I've just removed the paint (yep, Weiss painted the feet of the bed) and the surface was surprisingly smooth.No problem, thats what forums are for... sharing info et-al.
Now, if I could only find someone local with a mill big enough to machine the underside of the feet flat of the new bed for the 7x I am rebuilding.
I've just removed the paint (yep, Weiss painted the feet of the bed) and the surface was surprisingly smooth.
Putting the bed on the granite offcut I've now got and looking for light from the lamp I've got behind it and checking for any rock and roll, seems to indicate my bed's feet are flat individually, dimensionally equal height-wise and both on the same plane as each other.
I'm fighting the urge to run a dti over the feet. The granite offcut, though visually very flat and smooth, is no surface plate, but then...
...for Pete's sake Steve...just stop it, stop it now!
Sometimes I wonder if just don't want to enjoy myself!