I just received shipment of my mill a few weeks ago and am very disappointed in the quality of the mill.

Upon receiving the mill i noticed some gouges near the ways and e-mailed charter oak about it and Paul replied that it wont effect the operation.

Upon tear down to put the cnc conversion in it I noticed that the slide in the lower part of the z is loose - I can wobble it so I tightened up the Gib so that it can slide with a little effort. Now as the slide gets within 6" of the top it binds and I cannot get it to go passed the spot.

Any suggestions on a fix for this without having to send this whole mill back? It seems to be binding the same spot where the deep gouges are on the top. I have all ready took a file to try and cleanup the gouges but didn't improve anything.

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