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Yes, 2L130 is the generic, at least that's what I'm using.

Troy, If not it was very close and showed the steps nicely.

If you can get a copy of the Home Shop Machinist series on scraping, it covers the X2 mini-mill in detail.

Order.
Top and front of the table first, they become your reference surfaces. This...

Silly,

Great work, I too want to thank you for putting numbers on the this.

I have a $420 HF variation that has been scraped in to about the 80% level. One thing I did was to scrape in the...

You may also have a problem with the poll. I have a Harbor Freight mini mill, yet to be CNCed and an Atlas Lathe from the 50s... My data isn't going to help you with a quality decision.

Vogavt, your PM box is full. Send me a message when you empty it... Thx Greg

Ray, I make my own telescope mirrors and scraped the ways on my mill. Lapping is capable of making an air tight seal or an optical surface to a sub-micron level. Unfortunately there's a lot of...

Dovetails can be scraped, but you need a flat that will fit into the area. I have the material to make the flat but haven't yet. Scraping in a dovetail - detailed - YouTube

Lot's of discussion...

On my HF X2 most of the ways were about the same (including the column). I started by scrapping and a little sand paper lapping (so I could control where material was removed. Not completely done...

NewHobby, taking a grinder to the ways looks just wrong... I agree with COMachineist... and am also new to scraping. I've scraped most of my HF MiniMill using classical methods. I marked the...

I picked up a HF X2 early this summer. From what I can tell looking at the X2 specific sites, there are a lot of them being sold. More or less then before, I have no idea. I will say the X2 is...

Poboy

My HF X2 clone arrived about a month ago. I've been on the road a lot so not as far along as I could be. Hoss' answer is awesome, I'll reread it a few more times myself.

My passion is...

Hi all, new to the list and never thought my first post would be in a thread like this, but it such an interesting thread.

Etard, count me as one who wishes you well and am happy to answer...