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    identity of this micrometers and restoration

    Im still playing with the mics jaja ;D in the 50-75 i have found what seems to be a serial number in the plastic grip, 931437 said then i search on the mitutoyo website a way to send this number to a support mail so they could verify.. but get very confused on all the diferents kind of...
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    Belt drive conversion on 550w mini mill

    Hi I too own a Einhell mini mill i have done the belt-drive myselft, not too hard to do, i based my desing in the LMS common design but have to move the circuit box a little to make room for the bottom plate, doing this there is no more room for the torsion spring arm so I done the air spring...
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    identity of this micrometers and restoration

    i have cleaned the mics, the thimble problem just need a little oil, now the sliding is smooth 8) I have doing some measuring with my chinese 1-2-3 block, and the two are working great, the 50-75 one was already calibrated, measure in the 2" side of the block 50.8 mm +/-0.002 mm far as I can...
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    identity of this micrometers and restoration

    nopes is not the locking lever, i remobe the screw and still is tight but is no so extreme, just cant rotate the rachet fast
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    identity of this micrometers and restoration

    hi to all i hope some of your guys can helpme on this: just about a hour I acquired two micrometers, i bought them because i believe that they are Mitutoyos micrometers, any way i got the smaller (0-25) for +/- US$ 8 and the bigger (50-75) for $10 8), they are used condition, very dusty and a...
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    Adapting a drill chuck with a taper with tang for use in the mill

    Hi everyone some good day i realize that the drill chuck that came with my mini-mill was chucking the drills off center, with a closer inspection i notice that one of the three emm dogs? was more worn than the other out, so i assume that the drill chuck was a very cheap one time for new and...
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    Screwless vise dude

    well, the screwless vise finally arrive! im very happy with it and is very nicely made, so now is time to make the clams for the vise seeing all of your pictures and googled a lot more, i have desing a new type of clamps for the screwless 8)(or that i believe, because i have not seen this one...
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    adding a back plate to my mini-mill, but some problems appeared

    thanks for the responses JorgensenSteam: in the first place i was thinking in that, but i realize that the column should be straight to the travels, not to the surface of the table, reasons? i try to ilustrate what happens if the column was straight to the table surface: still, of the column...
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    adding a back plate to my mini-mill, but some problems appeared

    Hi to all right now i´m putting a back plate to my mini mill column, i made from a scrap steel plate, all going very well, i made the holes to the base and column and put the screws everything in place, so were are the troubles? well, once the plate was instaled I proceed to tram the mill...
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    workshop music

    my mini mill is close to my computer, when I work on the mill sometimes i put music, thins like blind faith or guess who, and some metal too in the other way, my lathe is on the garaje and i don´t have a radio or speakers there, so no music on the lathe, just the cutting noise...
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    Grinding Wheels

    i´m interested in that too i believe if the spindle is perfectly aligned to the travels of the mill table, you can "rectifier" the surface of the mill table and get if perfeclty true but im not no shure how to get this in practise... Saludos
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    miny mill

    totally agred with you Tin falcon when I bought my mini-mill i knew very well that these machines need a lot of work to get it working right, that mean a lots of mods i bought my mini-mill new from a store (mine is not made by sieg, is slightly diferent, but is the same thing after all) and i...
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    Screwless vise dude

    thanks for your opinions! now i´m very confidence on getting the vise, i´m just waiting for the shipping cost budget e-mail from Grizzly, to compare with LMS, and so see who would buy. (ofcourse is not only the vise, i´m planing to buy some other items and put all the stuff in the same...
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    Bearings for mini lathe head stock

    Hi I believe the stock bearings in the mini lathe are the same on the mini mill, is a 6206 30x62x16 (Rubber Seals, Self Lubricated) some people replace the stock bearings for a taper roller bearings types, because they resist more axial strength that the other ones (or something like that...
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    Screwless vise dude

    Thank for the responses! seem like the problem on this vise desing is more that slips over the mill table that the clamping force.. i´m planing to get this kind of screwless vise: the reason? the one that have slots in place of holes is a little more expensive... this one needs a couple of...
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    Screwless vise dude

    Hi everyone I need your opinion, you see, i´m planing to get a screwless vise for my mini-mill, i seen a lot of people using this vise on the web, seem to work very fine and with great acuracy, also the 3" screwless vise size match perfect the mini-mill. But to get one on my hand, i have to...
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    Hello from Santiago de Chile!!

    thanx everyone! im still checking to get some new tools for the mini-mill from grizzly at this time i have my final tests on the university, so i got only a few moments to read the forum, and can´t make chips until got all my classes approved...got a lot of incredible boring study ahead...
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    Hello from Santiago de Chile!!

    Hi to everyone! First I apologise for my poor english, i can read with no problmes, but redact is a little more complicated to me.. well, a little of me, Im a electrical engineer student here in chile, I begin making guitar effects and valve amps for fun and for won a little money, but with...
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