After cleaning- and letting the fumes dissipate overnight- we wired in
the new 230Volt service and a disconnect box, with a 4-gang 110V outlet also on the disconnect for things
like worklights. Throw one switch and shut the whole thing down for the night. There's a constant-hot outlet
already on the wall behind the column, in case I need to keep power to a DRO or some such.

The table feed had just a pinch of some metal shavings inside, but the gears and grease were clean. The handles
have about .003" of freeplay before the table starts to move- which is considerably better than the JET's badly-worn
0.093" in the middle of it's range.

I had to make sure the spindle was well and truly cleaned out- whoever was swinging the Cosmoline gun gave it a good
healthy blast up inside. Hey, I'd rather clean out Cosmo than rust! I used a softwood stick as a scraper, and then bits
of cloth taped to the stick and dipped in solvent to get the traces.

The head runs very smoothly and quietly, and it trammed in nicely, though the screw adjusters for both axis had a little slop, so they occasionally needed a little persuasion to keep from getting too big a movement while fine-tuning.
Just to start, I got it dead-nuts on the Y axis, and about .001" on the X.





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