I am looking for those on the forum who have a PM1236 (the chinese machine) and have had to tram the head stock, I am going to need to do this and I am looking for those that could provide a bit of information about the procedure.
Yes. It shows that it can be adjusted in the manual, but I would just like to converse with someone who has done this already, looking to see if they found anything Not covered in the manual or issues they had to workout that might save me some grief during the process.Your headstock is mis-aligned to the bed?
I too have found John and friends at PM to be very helpful and I am looking at the manual.I have a 1236 however have not had problems with the headstock alignment. The manual has info on headstock alignment starting on page 28. Might help. Also have found PM’s tech service very helpful.
I know the head stock is off because it is cutting a taper, in a 6" length, cutting toward the chuck, it move to the center line of the work piece .002 which gives me a .004 smaller diameter; therefore the head stock is rotated counter clockwise away from the center line of the ways.The first thing I always check is how do you know it's the headstock? How much of a taper is there?
If you had the headstock off, that's different of course...
I was trying to cut a press fit which will be an inch long with a flange on the back and an R8 taper connection. So I cut the material 7" long started diameter of 3" and made my first cut to clean it up and when I took my measurement at the chuck end then at the tail stock end the Chuck end was .004" smaller.Haven't noticed any issues like this with my PM1236. I'll have to re-check the tram just incase though.