Sieg SX3 Gib wobbling

[Herman LeungParticipant @hermanleung98574]

Greetings! I'm new here and I'm from Hong Kong. (very rare hobby mechanist in here)

Recently, I purchase a SX3 in China and encountered a problem.

Before cleaning, I used an indicator to check the alignment and it is OK, perfectly aligned.

After I stripped the table to clean all the packing grease and lubed it before assembling. After that, I check the alignment again, I found the needle on the dial indicator jumping a lot while i move the table(~0.03mm) and I suppose it means there are wobble in the gibs.

I have already tightened up the gibs while the table can still move freely, but i just can't figure out whats is going on.

[Herman LeungParticipant @hermanleung98574]

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Hello Herman,

Welcome to the forum.

I believe the SX3 has taper gibs.

You could do worse than read through Arc Euro Trade's SX3 preparation guide.

Neil

[Author]

Posts