Epoxy granite vertical mill build log

[Nick]

Some progress:

It started to look a bit like a mill:



Next step was to flatten the base casting so I could get the rails on. It was to big an area to scrape and the reference surface and base were to heavy to invert. So I blocked off two rail sized areas with wood and then used an angle grinder to lower the rest of the surface, a bit crude but worked well.



I then flipped my surface plate and lowered it onto the base. It wasn't that far off, you could see damage from the previous owners of the surface plate.



After several rounds of scraping, it is flat to about 0.02 - 0.03 mm



Y axis and saddle installed:



Next step is to flatten the Z-axis rails, im using the same process as with the base, flipping the surface plate, it's really slow going.