I couldn't afford to spend more, knowing that my "accessories"īill was going to be pretty high.
The gear setup being fragile but decided to take a chance because When I was researching my purchase I saw all of the warnings about It has some serious drawbacks, mostly related to the column.īut the X2D has checks exactly the same boxes as the 3990 has I agree that the HF mill doesn't belong in this discussion because The 3990 has the Gas strut to assist in raising the head, the HF The 3990 has a solid column which is more ridged than the tilt The HF has a brush style motor and the Hi/Lo gears that need to Head to break and lots of low speed torque, The 3990 has a 500w Brushless motor with no Hi/Lo gears in the The 3990 claims to have more table travel at X-Axis Travel On Sun, at 11:58 AM, Michael Jablonski wrote: The 3990 has a larger table size at 18.1" x 4.7", In fact, I can't remember the last time I ever switched the gear lever! It's been sitting in Hi pretty much from the get-go. Well, I'm not sure what sorts of horror people put the gears through but I've done some pretty dumb stuff with my X2D and the original gears are still intact. When I was researching my purchase I saw all of the warnings about the gear setup being fragile but decided to take a chance because I couldn't afford to spend more, knowing that my "accessories" bill was going to be pretty high. But the X2D has checks exactly the same boxes as the 3990 has except the brushless motor/gear lever. I agree that the HF mill doesn't belong in this discussion because it has some serious drawbacks, mostly related to the column. The 3990 has the Gas strut to assist in raising the head, the HF has a spring. The 3990 has a solid column which is more ridged than the tilt column on the HF. The 3990 has a 500w Brushless motor with no Hi/Lo gears in the head to break and lots of low speed torque, The HF has a brush style motor and the Hi/Lo gears that need to be shifted and they are known to break. The 3990 claims to have more table travel at X-Axis Travel 11.8", Y-Axis Travel 5.1", HF n/a. On Sun, at 11:58 AM, Michael Jablonski wrote: The 3990 has a larger table size at 18.1" x 4.7", while the HF table size is 15-7/8" x 3-11/16".
Note that the Micrmark comes with True Inch lead screws, where as the LMS and I believe the HF have metric lead screws.
she was spoiled with her father's (a tool and die maker) high end stuff. I use my shop for my day job so a lot of it is things I did to allow me to rapidly get things done.Īs to the drilling rack - I got rid of that at the request of my wife. There's a website of my installs and tweaks. There's also a riser block - this was something I did with a block I got from Online Metals when I got my rigid column and I sent pic's to someone at LMS.Įventually they began selling the 2" riser. LMS and Micromark ask for a bit more of a refined product - not just in the accessories but in the finish.Īnd LMS no longer sells the tilting column, and instead sells the solid column - which, at least in my shop since I mod'ed my stock tilting column, much more rigid. deburring, machining, painting) to each customer's spec.
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