working on the table and saddle

This weekend I got the dovetails straigtened up.  The first thing I did was make sure that the head on my larger mill was straight.  This is called tramming the head.

Here I am confirming that the head has been properly trammed.

Before starting to recut the ways the table had to be clamped in with proper alignment.

The ways of the table were re-cut with a 55 degree dovetail cutter to get them closer to straight and parrallel than I was measuring them to be out of the box from the factory.  Even on my larger Lagun Mill there is some measurable error as shown below but it was better than how I received it.

Here is an analysis of the success of the initial passes on each side.

Final finishing plan after recutting dovetails

For final flatness scraping was done on the dovetails after cutting on the mill.  Here is the first surface in progress

Conclusion on the condition of the table ways

Work on the saddle begins

The saddle now slides easily on the table X axis

Work starts on the saddle y axis

Quick way to measure the saddle y axis for scraping it to be perpendicular to the x axis