Just got my 3MT testbar from the aussies on Ebay. The one that comes in
the wooden box. It came in a UPS bag, with a Toll (AU's carrier) bag
inside. Needless to say the wooden box suffered a bit of damage, tho
just the ends. The wooden box was bubble wrapped fairly tightly so I
don't think the bar was damaged; at least no obvious indication of trama...
A few years back, I did a Rollie's Dad's Method with an old injet
carriage bar i had lying around. The new test bar agreed that I was
off about 1mil of headstock alignment. I'd checked the ways previous to
this and I got lucky, everything was within a mil...
You may still want to use RDM with a testbar - I still see about mil
variance at the far end when it rotates; at the headstock I can't even
see my indicator move, so the 3MT taper is damn close to the bar section.
Got the headstock about as good as a 7x can get...
TSE Ming-wai mwtse@netvigator.com [7x12minilathe] wrote:
>Many thanks, have ordered from ebay.
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