I took a bit more apart tonight and cleaned the gibs from the x and y axis and noticed the x axis gib has been rebuilt with Turcite or similar so it’s had a fair bit of wear and seen in other areas so I checked the y axis and that’s standard but although I haven’t removed it yet I can see the z axis gib on the knee has also been rebuilt with turcite although this is not great it was only a £300 machine to start with and the turcite has done the job as there is no play from what I can tell anymore on the knee and on the x axis before I stripped it down so I can’t complain
As previously mentioned this is going to be more used for drilling than milling so high accuracy although nice is not massively important and it will be a huge improvement of my little bench mounted 13mm chucked pillar drill where the spindle oscillates where it’s so worn out lol
Also cleaned more swarf etc out the knee and removed the pinions gears, think I will end up removing the knee to clean it up of debris properly
I have now decided that I am not going to do and prep or paint on this and will only be mechanically stripping and full cleaning then rebuilding with new belts and bearings and wiring, function over form for this 1
A few pics
As previously mentioned this is going to be more used for drilling than milling so high accuracy although nice is not massively important and it will be a huge improvement of my little bench mounted 13mm chucked pillar drill where the spindle oscillates where it’s so worn out lol
Also cleaned more swarf etc out the knee and removed the pinions gears, think I will end up removing the knee to clean it up of debris properly
I have now decided that I am not going to do and prep or paint on this and will only be mechanically stripping and full cleaning then rebuilding with new belts and bearings and wiring, function over form for this 1
A few pics
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