{"id":1490,"date":"2011-12-16T22:57:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T22:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2011-12-16T22:57:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T22:57:22","slug":"finally-the-mill-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/?p=1490","title":{"rendered":"Finally! The mill arrived!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 6 months of waiting I noticed Chester had the Eagle 25 mill on special offer. I called them and found out that this indeed meant the new lot of mills had arrived!<br \/>\nI borrowed some money to pay off the outstanding bill on it and got delivery arranged as soon as possible, since I didn&#8217;t want mine to be the last of the lot for a couple of reasons;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If there was something wrong with it, I wanted there still to be one to replace it with.<\/li>\n<li>If I waited until there weren&#8217;t many left, I&#8217;d risk getting the obviously less than immaculate ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So yesterday around 3pm, it arrived!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d had some trouble with Chester when trying to find out how large the actual crate would be, since it was coming to a domestic property and we have a nice domestic garden-gate it&#8217;d have to get through. I&#8217;d been told it was 90cm wide, so to expect packaging a few cm larger than that. So as a result I was fully expecting to have to dismantle it on the pavement outside to move it in.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately the crate, once off the pallet was just small enough to fit into the front garden. :)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/galleries\/Entry%20Pics\/Milling\/Eagle%2025\/Dscf5369.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Eagle 25 crate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/galleries\/Entry%20Pics\/Milling\/Eagle%2025\/slides\/Dscf5369.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reason for this was it&#8217;s packed diagonally to save space, so the crate wasn&#8217;t as wide or deep.<\/p>\n<p>And there she is. :3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/galleries\/Entry%20Pics\/Milling\/Eagle%2025\/Dscf5371.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Boxed mill\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/galleries\/Entry%20Pics\/Milling\/Eagle%2025\/slides\/Dscf5371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/galleries\/Entry%20Pics\/Milling\/Eagle%2025\/Dscf5374.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/galleries\/Entry%20Pics\/Milling\/Eagle%2025\/slides\/Dscf5374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Checked the manual and with help from Andy, broke it down into; the base, motor, headstock, and column. Then we lugged it through to the workshop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/galleries\/Entry%20Pics\/Milling\/Eagle%2025\/Dscf5376.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/galleries\/Entry%20Pics\/Milling\/Eagle%2025\/slides\/Dscf5376.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whew! That&#8217;s a hell of a weight off my mind now.<\/p>\n<p>I generally like the layout, though there&#8217;s a couple of niggles; the belt housing lacks an extra hatch that&#8217;s in the manual so it can be opened when the head is in a lowered position. It also has mains cabling running through it within milimeters of the spindle pulley. The quality of the table casting is also a bit rough. But of all the Chinese tools I&#8217;ve bought it&#8217;s probably the best, and I bought it understanding it would need tweaking.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the R8 taper version with metric leadscrews (2mm pitch). I&#8217;ll need to make some adaptors and stand-offs for the the table portion.<\/p>\n<p>The top-box should come off fairly easily, though the spindle pully is a lot larger than I expected. This might make it trickier to position the big DC motor. But overall nothing has been thrown up that can&#8217;t be overcome.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to knock a couple of other small projects out of the way before I really get started on it, but should be able to work on it pretty easily come the new year. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 6 months of waiting I noticed Chester had the Eagle 25 mill on special offer. I called them and found out that this indeed meant the new lot of mills had arrived! I borrowed some money to pay off the outstanding bill on it and got delivery arranged as soon as possible, since I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/?p=1490\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finally! 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