I got the stand braced up with some additional gussets as well as leg to leg bracing halfway up the legs. I got everything painted blue again and have the mill mounted on the stand. Everything is much tighter now and seems good to go. Over the weekend I was able to re-tram everything from scratch. I started with setting the column straight in x and y using a precision square clamped to the table and then indicating off of it as I moved the head up and down. Then I retrammed the spindle to table using my self made dual dial incidator tramming aid. I did end up shimming between the head and the carriage at the top to get the spindle in tram as it was showing about .005 tilted back away. I am extremely happy with how things turned out with the stand.
On a side note, my weekend was pretty eventful. Friday evening my power went out at the house. When I checked the panel, I instantly smelled something burning. It was obvious that the main breaker had gone out. I could also see signs of overheating on the panel itself. I got an electrician scheduled for the next morning. When he first arrived, he thought it was just the main breaker that went out and he went to get another one from his shop since Lowes or Home Depot didn't have any like it. Upon returning, he came back he removed the main and went to clean the main lug and it fell off in his hand. It was then that he could tell that the buss bar was toasted all the way through. So, now I am the owner of a completely new pane and meter socket. Of course, nobody had a Siemens panel in stock so he had to buy all new breakers. $1,800 later the power was back on. The good thing is that nothing too bad happened. I had added a 50 amp circuit for my welder and a couple of 20 amp circuits for other stuff in the garage. He said all of my work was up to code and didn't cause the issue. He thinks there had been a problem in the box before as there were actually two different screws connecting the main feeds. I have only owned the house for about 2.5 years so it appears that there had been a problem with the panel before I bought the house. I'm just glad my family and home are safe.
