Originally Posted by 59 fleet
I like that you took yours apart to rebuild it. I did not remove the knee or saddle, I was not that ambitious. Did you scrape the dovetail ways for accuracy?

Yes. It had a stuck/broken gib for the knee when I got it. I tore it down, put in a new gib, scraped everything, and started reassembling it. I wanted to do a ballscrew conversion on it but ended up doing a new anti-backlash nut instead.

One of these days I will finish it.


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