Member postings for Colin Thorburn

Martin, what you say makes perfect sense when you think about it - which of course never occurred to me. I was thinking 'big rigid cutter'. I'll be in the shed...

Lee, I've had my Warco Super Major about 3 months now and can confirm the same disturbing head noise demonstrated in your video so it looks like we're both on the same learning curve. "Surely it's not supposed to sound like that" is the question I've been asking myself almost every time I a take a cut. With everything nipped down, I took a 2x3 deep x100 mm conventional cut at 1600rpm in mild steel with a brand new Banggood 12mm carbide 4 flute choked down in an R8 collet at about 1 mm/sec feed and it sounded like the head was going to start stripping gears any second. That's not even 1cubic centimetre let alone 3/4 of a cubic inch and over nearly 2 mins! I persisted and got a nice cut but that's not how it sounds on you-tube was all I was left thinking. So I am very dubious about removing metal in any quantity or I need to change my expectations about what noise is 'right'. Warco (et al) could do worse than produce a reference musical - call it the Sound of Milling.

Clive, many thanks for the detailed advice. It really helped. Got it in quite easily in the end after following your paragraph 5. Hopefully turning it on for the first time this afternoon!

Hello all. I'm a complete noob who has just acquired their first mill: Warco Super Major. I had to remove the table to get it through the shed door. I'm now refitting it and I'm starting to wonder if fitting it from the left (ie sliding it right ) is possible? I can't seem to get it past the gib. Is is just a case persevering with adjusting the gib or is fitting it this way as opposed to right to left doomed to failure? If I have to fit it right to left I've got my work cut out for me. Or am I barking up the wrong tree and I can refit the gib once the table is on the y-axis. I had a go but it seems very tight and I did not want to force it. It's a tapered gib narrow end to the left. Thanks folks. Looking forward to getting involved.