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    Revisiting weird gib issue

    In the meantime, does anyone have the direct contacts of the management at PM and would be willing to share? I’ll give tech support until the end of the week to respond but I’m thinking if I make direct contacts with the management they might help push things(?)
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    Revisiting weird gib issue

    Thank you all for the feedback. I did express my concerns about the approach they were taking after understanding from Charlie at tech support that they are just planning to take a skim cut on the dovetail in question to make sure it’s flat. My response to that was exactly as you all suggested...
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    Revisiting weird gib issue

    Latest from PM is that they’ll send a label for me to ship the saddle only and they will fix it and send it back? Do you guys think this is a good idea?
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    Tool Autocollimator?

    Any one know where I can get a decent optical autocollimator with .2arc second resolution? Hoping to spend 1K or so….not many options on eBay
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    Revisiting weird gib issue

    Me too, that would be preferable for sure, I learned a lot trying to troubleshoot this issue but I certainly want to use the machine instead of working on fixing it
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    Revisiting weird gib issue

    I suspect something went wrong with the casting, so when the saddle was machined /ground against whatever jig they use at the factory, it went out of tolerance and they tried to manually correct it but didn’t do a good job inspecting it. PM tech support told me the flat that’s ground in the...
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    Revisiting weird gib issue

    Quick update: after a couple of phone and email conversations explaining the findings to PM, they asked me to take a video so they can show it to technicians at the factory. According to the latest communication, they are waiting for feedback from the factory to see if they’ll send me a new...
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    Revisiting weird gib issue

    Apologies for the delay in getting back to this thread as I’ve been travelling for work. I traced the source of my troubles to what appears to be a combination of an improperly ground saddle casting and a bowed/improperly finished gib. Before making any changes to anything I measured the...
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    Revisiting weird gib issue

    Im in Burlington Ontario
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    Revisiting weird gib issue

    I understand what you mean, a lower spot in the middle of the dovetail will cause the cross slide to be wedged on one end but loose on the other explaining the behaviour. I’m going to improvise a rig similar to what @Mcgyver suggested first since that doesn’t require the mill to fabricate and...
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    Revisiting weird gib issue

    I use a brayer on the surface plate but that doesn’t work on dovetails
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    Revisiting weird gib issue

    That’s exactly what I use on the surface plate, at some point I will do that with dovetails as the master reference as you suggested. I need to make something to spread the Prussian blue evenly though…I tried with a brush and it was a huge mess
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    Revisiting weird gib issue

    I’ll take some pictures and share here…to your point maybe the issue is the measurement
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    Revisiting weird gib issue

    Agree, but the only issue I care about the cross slide rocking despite having the gib inserted…the gib rocking up and down was simply a theory correlating a potentially badly fitted gib to the main issue Absolutely correct, that’s what I have the sides are parallel height-wise but tapered...
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    Revisiting weird gib issue

    Yes will do and I agree, if things appear flat on the gib side but the issue persists then I can go through the methodical testing, I have a feeling it will be resolved since the ground tapered gib blank removes the slop across the entire range of travel(tested by inserting and removing the gib...
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