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Moving my "new" Grizzly G1006

 

Someone sent me this excellent article on how to disassemble and move one of these mills. (The rest of the stiff in hood website is interesting too).


This guy moved his mill twice and explains in detail how to take it apart. He even weighed the individual parts, which was very comforting.? Despite being well into geezerhood, I work out pretty regularly and I think I'll be able to pick up all the parts on this list. Also I have a come along and know how to use them. That's what he used to lift off the head and that sounds quite practical if I can find an overhead beam at the seller's factory.

?I have one question for you guys though. This mill is missing the left hand crank handle for the X-axis leadscrew. (Possibly removed at some point to fit a motor, which was sold to someone else at some point).? Do I actually need one? Mini-mills have never had more than one crank and I don't really understand the reason why big mills have two unless moving the table during some operations requires an enormous amount of force.

So should I keep my eyes open for another crank handle or does it matter??

Mike Taglieri?
 

You might try contacting Grizzly to see if they have the part and what it is for. Even though the mill is discontinued they may have some useful information. If you can't find the part could you make one?
 

After doing a little more research this is probably a G1007 mill/drill that had the power feed on the left end. The hand crank is not required at both ends.
 

Using a handle on left or right of the table is pretty much a matter of convenience. Are you left or right handed, and where do you like to stand when using the mill?? Big mills have two to minimize the amount of walking from one side to the other if the work is not centered on the table.? Just loosen the set screw and move your handle if needed, but you really don't need two on a mill this size.
Joe Frechette -? "someone"
 

It is pretty common for powerfeed to replace one of the table cranks. I have a Clausing mill of a similar size and same thing, left handle replaced by powerfeed.

Agree I can see where a second handle might be nice to have but I've not yet found myself wishing I had a crank on both ends.
 

If you go to "grizzly parts" and get to that page and enter g1006 for the model is has an exploded view and a parts list.



They have a replacement handwheel, part 401V2 ($35.40) which is plastic and seems to have replaced part 401 which is likely metal and likely the handwheel remaining on your machine.? If so, you could get two plastic ones to have a "matched set".? Or have one of each.? Or if the remaining one is already plastic, then just get the one.? Might be hard to find a metal replacement, but there likely is something, somewhere..

You will also need one part 436 ($8.95) which is the little handle that affixes to the handwheel.

If it were mine, I would get the replacement handwheel and handle (or perhaps two if that was what was needed to make everything match) to get the machine back to "normal" so it is in a better configuration if I ever wanted to sell it.

On large mills, I find myself using both handwheels, but the right one far more often.? I find myself using the left one when the table is moved pretty far right so that I am closer to where the cutting action is (to observe) instead of being far away at the far end of an extended table or having to reach way over to get to a handwheel not in easy reach.

If you can find or fashion a power feed attachment for the handle-less end, you might enjoy it.? Grizzly shows parts for it, but it seems you can a replacement the motor for $503 which sounds like a punishing price and I can't imagine what an entire assembly would cost - IF they had it for sale.? Grizzly shows the entire power feed assembly as discontinued which seems to be this part number:?

P1126231 - *DISCD*POWER FEED ASSEMBLY AL-200S V1

Charles E. "Chuck" Kinzer

On Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 09:37:30 AM PDT, paraflyr <frechettejoe4@...> wrote:


Using a handle on left or right of the table is pretty much a matter of convenience. Are you left or right handed, and where do you like to stand when using the mill?? Big mills have two to minimize the amount of walking from one side to the other if the work is not centered on the table.? Just loosen the set screw and move your handle if needed, but you really don't need two on a mill this size.
Joe Frechette -? "someone"

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