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- May 22, 2019
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I have a g0791 which is a g4003g with a very sloppy mill in the middle of ways. I’ve been noticing, well it’s always been easier to move the saddle the closer you get to the chuck but, a couple days ago I noticed a little more friction or a little harder to turn the hand wheel. I added thrust washer to saddle handwheel that was left over from my trans rebuilt kit and made a world of different so when it had resistance turning it I knew something was wrong.
Well I checked everywhere for something caught between ways and saddle and checked to see if the added bearing was dirty and nothing.So like normal,after I finished turning a 20” piece of 2.5” steel round bar down,I was cleaning my ways so I could oil it and when I went over the rail where the gap seem is I could feel a bump and when I looked it made me sick to my stomach. I never intended and never would’ve removed the gap for any reason At all bc I’ve read that people have went through hell and back and back to hell trying to get the gap back in line.
Now I’ve noticed here lately that it has been turning bigger towards the chuck and I didn’t know why bc everything is level and the tailstock hasn’t changed a bit but now it makes sense bc the bed shifted in the -y direction.Its not a small amount either but what is a small amount when talking about machining precision parts? That was a rhetorical question.
I’ve had a lot of problems with this order and have had to replace a few parts And other things bc they just were not installed bc of grizzly QC and UPS For losing a ton of tooling but for the most part Grizzly has been good except when I got the runaround when trying to get a refund for a bunch of tooling that was lost in transit but, came through in the end bc PayPal was going to make them refund all 7000 dollars I spent on everything. Now my motor is going out and worst my bed has shifted and I’ve barely used the damn thing bc i had to wait long periods of being sent 2 of each, 3 jaw chuck,compound gib and auto feed rod bc the first ones sent out were for Different machine.
Ive really had enough but I really don’t want to lose my lathe so what would y’all do?
I’m mostly worried about the bed gap?
One more thing the back gear bind in one spot when rotating so that another thing I haven’t even mentioned to them.
By the way it’s not even a year old so I’m still under warranty.
Well I checked everywhere for something caught between ways and saddle and checked to see if the added bearing was dirty and nothing.So like normal,after I finished turning a 20” piece of 2.5” steel round bar down,I was cleaning my ways so I could oil it and when I went over the rail where the gap seem is I could feel a bump and when I looked it made me sick to my stomach. I never intended and never would’ve removed the gap for any reason At all bc I’ve read that people have went through hell and back and back to hell trying to get the gap back in line.
Now I’ve noticed here lately that it has been turning bigger towards the chuck and I didn’t know why bc everything is level and the tailstock hasn’t changed a bit but now it makes sense bc the bed shifted in the -y direction.Its not a small amount either but what is a small amount when talking about machining precision parts? That was a rhetorical question.
I’ve had a lot of problems with this order and have had to replace a few parts And other things bc they just were not installed bc of grizzly QC and UPS For losing a ton of tooling but for the most part Grizzly has been good except when I got the runaround when trying to get a refund for a bunch of tooling that was lost in transit but, came through in the end bc PayPal was going to make them refund all 7000 dollars I spent on everything. Now my motor is going out and worst my bed has shifted and I’ve barely used the damn thing bc i had to wait long periods of being sent 2 of each, 3 jaw chuck,compound gib and auto feed rod bc the first ones sent out were for Different machine.
Ive really had enough but I really don’t want to lose my lathe so what would y’all do?
I’m mostly worried about the bed gap?
One more thing the back gear bind in one spot when rotating so that another thing I haven’t even mentioned to them.
By the way it’s not even a year old so I’m still under warranty.