I actually really havent used my locks much on my little jet 8 by 36, one of the reasons is i havnt gone godzilla crazy with cuts yet, here's my two part question, I can see useing the locks for Y when feeding with X on heavy stuff but if its not heavy work is it not more accurate to leave the locks out of it ---- i mean even with properly ajusted gibs a couple of X locks will move the table back some, or for something like a rotary table --- you get everything centered with your RT and then go off center for say a bolt hole pattern or something ---- after this wouldnt it be a no no to lock your X and Y on your mill table, sure it would give more stability but it would also change position,,, all tables move when locked No? I know mine does yet my gibs are properly adjusted, there will always be oil room that gets squished out esp. with thick vactra.... A DRO also will not catch this because of the way the scales are mounted have no change on the table position even though the table will shift, so you center and then lock --- things change but that doesnt register on your scales...
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