hi to all!
time as come to correct the poor´s dovetails of my mini mill, how i know that they are poor? when i disarm the table for cleanup and lub i notice that just a tiny line of the contact surface shows wear of use, then i check with my surface "porcelanate" plate if the middle piece of the table (the one that have the x and y dovetails) was flat, and it was no good, only two point of contact at the extreme, if i touch the piece a little i can feel and hear the click click of the metalic sound of the other two points balancing.
(and with the screwless vice, parales and all the stuff i still cant cut a 90 square corner ajja)
i research on the internet how to scrap metal, made a scraping tool out of a old file just as everybody recomend, that work good
but i have a little trouble whit my dye, im currenly using blue chinese ink, that cheap ink for drawing, i cant get those metal ink that everybody use, here in Chile i dont know if are abiale some of that, at least i have not find yet .
two problems: 1- the ink dry too fast (here is summer) and i have to remove the dry ink for every pass on the plate
2- the resulting marking on the workpiece is not like i see in the pictures and tutorials i have for reference
i show you some pictures:
the tool:
the piece:
the surface plate and ink:
the ink rare spotting point:
the point scraped:
afther a few passes:
as you can see, the ink spotting point is not like the references:
that keep my concern, and more the fact that that the ink not paint the wear lines, in this case this comes to my mind:
this is getting a little weird, if my mill is so bad, i start thinking better to let the thing like they are now, i do not have experience with scraping, and i do not want to ruin my mill!!
please
need advise to carry on this process, any help i will apreciate much!!
saludos