So I made a knurled adapter to hold the dial and the crank but still bolted on the stock shaft the handle was welded ,shaped and ground to achive this shape it is now 4 inches long and makes a world of differance. Ray
Grizzly should be reading this form and updating their machine's. All customers would benefit from the improvements that their customer's come up with, free R & D.
I just made another update the lead screw that lifts the table was 16 tpi with the present gear ratio that lifted the table 1/32 per rev. I now made a new Acme screw 3/4 dia at 8 tpi this gives me 1/16 per rev. and makes the dial direct read instead of indirect.
Here is a shot of the new lead screw with the stock old one next to it the new one I made is 8 TPI the old is 16 TPI the new one has a brass lead screw nut the old one is cast.
That is a great line up of mods you have done to your mill. Seeing what it was, and all you have done, makes me wonder why they didn't make them this way. Maybe you should make up a kit to sell with all your improvments.
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