Customer Reviews for Vevor Cross Milling Work Slide Table Bench Drilling Milling Machine 6"x 18.5"

Decent value for the money. Biggest complaint is the the bottom adjustment wheel sits below the bottom of the plate. If you plan to mount to a large table like a commercial sized drill press you cannot center it under the bit.You need to take apart and stone the ways they were very rough. Acme threads were bent and you cannot adjust the backlash out of it. But for a drill press its nice for the price point.Casting is very rough but after adjusting the ways it's actually pretty smooth.For a home gamer it does well

Those complaining about lack of accuracy due to backlash (to the other reviewer complaining about hysteresis, this term is generally applied to magnetic fields while backlash is the correct term for mechanical systems), will need to spend at least double or more to get near zero backlash. For the purpose of routers or drill presses, you cannot beat this XY table for the price. I will probably buy another one to mount on my lathe. This is a beast of a table that is reasonably well made and achieves nearly industry level toughness, while not promising .001 accuracy that would be unreasonable in this price range.

used it to make drill press stand for mag drill & it came out great

Ellis L.For the price this is a great milling table. I use it on my drill press and find it handy for a lot of applications. When the table came it was missing a hand crank handle. Made do by making my own. It is cast iron so i recommend that you keep is oiled or use a rust preventer. The calibrations on the turning knobs are not accurate but I use calipers to get the accuracy that I need. Mounting bolts and hold down clamps do not come with it. For my first milling table it is great.

A great product, after disassemble , clean up and adjustment, it worked smoothly, the only trouble I though was when the package arrived and the "y" shaft was protruding from the wood case, fortunately no damage was apparent.Will order again from this seller.

For all the reviewers complaining about how it functions on arrival, remember, the hard work has been done for you, and is delivered for ~$150. How on earth you're expecting an additional 4-6 hours of "finishing" labor to be included at that price it is beyond me. Think of it more as a 98% finished $500 cross-slide at a crazy discount so long as you are willing to put in the sweat equity. After you disassemble and clean all the factory goop out of it, clean all of the parts, carefully de-burr the slides and hone them nice and smooth, grind the gibs a bit so they ride at the proper height in the dovetails and de-burr if necessary (mine were nearly perfect), then repack the thrust bearings and reassemble the acme rods careful to align so they don't bind or seem "bent" (the reports of bent acme rods are likely due to being offset slightly (loose manufacturing tolerances I'm sure, one of mine was dead center, the other was offset by .052" which made it appear bent during dry assembly since the thrust race was seating at a slight angle, so when reassembling I added a thin washer that seated nicely against the acme thread/rod axle shoulder thrust bearing race seat), and finally added a large lock-washer behind the hand wheels to eliminate a chance of rubbing against the slide body. I didn't put any spring tension on the thrust bearings, just lightweight torque barely past hand-tight, but I may in future. And the complaints on the paint job are warranted for sure, it's sloppy as can be....but it's not bad to the point of any negativity, just clean up any of the splashover and get on with it, just mill something already and don't worry about the paint job so much, you're going to be coating the entire slide with a thin film of oil through normal usage, maintenance, and whatnot, it should remain fairly well protected from airborne humidity...Edit after I figured out the scale, the numbers are very wrong like others mentioned, and the graduations are all screwy, clearly it wa

As other reviewers have noted, be prepared to spend 2-3 hours disassembling, degreasing, cleaning, lubricating, finishing, reassembling, and adjusting this product. It comes with heavy shipping grease and casting sand in every crevice. The Amazon listing should say ‘Frequently Bought Together’ with ‘WD-40 - 300349 Specialist Industrial-Strength Cleaner & Degreaser’, which I bought and used. This stuff is great and really works well to clean it up.It’s hard to believe these are actually new products. The handles had some sort of thread locker in the threads, and many parts appeared to have marks from use. I suspect they may be used surplus units.When reassembling, the acme followers can be tightened up considerably by shimming with aluminum foil so they fit much tighter in the slides. This will reduce a lot of backlash. The fit of the acme thread in the follower is actually quite good. One keyway was quite a bit too large which resulted in backlash in the handle. This can be shimmed with small gauge wire to some extent.The gibs need to be cleaned up with a file and fine sandpaper. Even after this, the slides do not move evenly and can have tight spots. I suspect more work to clean up the gibs and slides would help this.The locking nut on the handles can be adjusted carefully to remove most of the backlash in the acme screw bearings.My use was not for milling but for precision positioning for drilling holes. As long as you are careful to account for the backlash, it works quite well for this purpose and the holes came out very accurately. I can’t say how well it would work in a milling application (translation under side force).Although the handles imply 4mm per turn, for some reason actual measurements revealed that the acme screws are actually 2mm per turn, so you have to take that into account when making precision movements with the handles using the verniers.

Good

Solid. Stable. Did have to lap the ways in a bit. Others said they disassembled it. I didn't. I oiled it up, then used my drill and socket adapter to run it back and forth many times. Wipe the oil and metal crud off, oil it again. Adjust the slides taking out the slop and run the drill some more. The slide ways will self lap. Do enough to use it, then it will just keep getting smoother with time and use.

This table uses 7/16 T slots. At least that is what I bought here on Amazon. There is a cheepo kit that you can use for affixing anything. As far as what people are saying about taking the product apart. Mine was shipped in a wooden box. There were little wood splinters I just gave it a little oil rub to clean off any of the schmoo from shipping. It's not exactly cosmoline but there is some kind of light oil on most of this already. Mine works great. As far as issues, the start of the thread for the handle on the x axis got a little smashed in shipping when it escaped from the box. I just took my Dremel and cutting wheel and recut the start of the thread by hand. Works great. I do agree that you should lubricate everything once you get it mounted up. Overall- I bought this for my drill press because I wanted something that gave me more control than a cross slide and allowed me to mount larger workpeices. This fits the bill. If your wanting to mill with this you would likely need to do what others have mentioned and tighten up the grubs around the table to take the slip out of it then use a dial guage to make sure your grubs are set square. For the price I am very happy, this thing feels like it will outlast me. Hopefully when my kids grow up one of them will inherit this little chunk of chineseium and get some good use out of it.