Originally Posted by
Greg
So... Last year I acquired a Little Machine Shop Mini Mill. This was probably project 12 or so, and finally I feel comfortable operating (100% self taught) the mill.
Took the rail apart.
Shortened the round rail. I did this by rotating the round rail in the vise and making 4 shallow cuts.
Measured the depth of the thread and shortened the central rod and rethreaded the end.
Shortened the top rectangular rod to size and drilled a hole in it and into the round rail.
Threaded the hole in the round rail.
Reamed out the hole in the square rod to countersink the screw.
Re-assembled the Rail.
Awaiting a 3/32" end mill ($6.95) to cut the grove for the pin of another rail to fit in.
The hardest thing was to find a correctly sized Phillips screwdriver to correctly fit inside the 2 screws! The screws initially were very hard to turn, to me looks like dried out thread sealant.
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