Tramming A Vertical Milling Machine

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Tom Davis     Jerry Hine    Neil Butterfield     Brian Lamb     Jim Wright      Bob Sanders     Tim Coppage     Gerald Goldberg     Bill Townsend  Marty Escarcega     Doug Endrud     Larry Carter     John Lea     Gene Lucas     Tony Cassinat     David Rabenius

 

 

     

Crowd starts to gather

 

 

 

 

John Lea, Tom Davis, Neil Butterfield. Jim Wright, Doug Endrud, Marty Escarcega, and the donut table (which your webmaster missed out on again!)

  

Installing the straight edge perpendicular to the table X axis

  

Tramming the alignment of the mill head perpendicular to the table X axis

The locking bolts for the mill head to be loosened to adjust alignment to the table X axis

   

 

Using a 123 block to check the head alignment zero for tilt left to right

 

 

Tramming the fixed vise jaw for alignment to the X axis

 

A model engine for show & tell brought by Jim Wright??

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Updated 5/20/2007