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It's still working fine. There's a rubber chip guard that goes behind the bed that is completely dry rotted, but that's the only real negative.If you go to the first page, I gave you a link to the mill on Grizzly's web site (take too many mary jane gummy bears today buddy?) :) http://www.grizzly.com/products/Heavy-Duty-Mill-Drill-with-Power-Feed/G0754
Remember you will spend at least another 25% or so on tooling. I got my lathe used but it has 6 boxes of tooling.Start watching CL (I use searchtempest) for guys getting rid of stuff. New is nice, but mostly chinese now.
Yeah that 755 is a better machine for sure.Not sure if I mentioned it but their mills are Taiwan and much nicer, and better tolerances, than their china lathes.Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk
The 755 is how I would go. Larger table and power feed means a lot.
The 754 is really stout, but I have gotten a bit of flex out of the post. You have to really tighten the pinch bolts (like 1" nuts iirc). The wrench it comes with doesn't have enough leverage. Need to set up a socket and breaker bar but I keep forgetting.Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk
Quote from: KensAuto on April 15, 2018, 04:34:03 PMThe 754 is really stout, but I have gotten a bit of flex out of the post. You have to really tighten the pinch bolts (like 1" nuts iirc). The wrench it comes with doesn't have enough leverage. Need to set up a socket and breaker bar but I keep forgetting.Sent from my Pixel using TapatalkMovement because you let H tighten the pinch bolts? Or are you saying the post flexed & if so what were you doing? Don’t tell me you let Don torture test it.......
Last time I remember, I was using a large bit to face a piece of steel and it wouldn't take a .025 cut. the vibrations caused the nuts to loosen even tho I had tightened the crap out of them (with the supplied wrench).Probably a multitude of user errors, like cheap bits, feed to fast, no strength in my arms, you know, the usual.
Quote from: stlaser on April 15, 2018, 04:58:12 PMQuote from: KensAuto on April 15, 2018, 04:34:03 PMThe 754 is really stout, but I have gotten a bit of flex out of the post. You have to really tighten the pinch bolts (like 1" nuts iirc). The wrench it comes with doesn't have enough leverage. Need to set up a socket and breaker bar but I keep forgetting.Sent from my Pixel using TapatalkMovement because you let H tighten the pinch bolts? Or are you saying the post flexed & if so what were you doing? Don’t tell me you let Don torture test it.......I haven't seen it, nor run over it, nor bush hogged anything like that recently...
Naw, but I did stay in a holiday express once.Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk