Greetings all; Does anyone here have a Grizzly GO704? I feel the need of a bigger working envelope than my micromill with its expanded table kit gives me. That would expand my Y motion a good 2", the X at least 8" more, rather welcome when carving bigger pieces of wood.
I have some concerns about the Z axis drive, and am wondering if I'd have to build another overhead like I did for the micromill before I could even think of drilling a hole using EMC. Looking at the manual pdf, I don't care for the non-adjustable nut, nor its floating socket in the back of the heads sled, and an apparent complete non-adjustment of the mesh of the bevel gears that drive it. That looks like a combined backlash in excess of .050" to me. If anyone has one of these, pipe up please and relate its major gotcha's. At about $1400 (plus another 2 bills to get me to the store & back to pick it up, by the time some tooling is included, it has to have a major weak spot someplace besides its puny little 750 watt motor & 2 speed gear box. If I had to, I could do a better job of making another column riser to support a drive similar to whats on my micromill, which took the available down pressure I could put on a drill bit from 4 to 6 pounds up to 155 pounds. That actually made that little mill usable, within its motion envelope if the cut depth was miniscule (also hard on bits, the light cut = high wear even on carbide) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. -- Harry S. Truman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
