Weiss WMD 30LV Bench Milling Machine 

Thank you Daniel, I really appreciate your comment!! I'm very happy with the casters are 'life savers' in my tiny shop, as for the leveling feet once they tighten against the floor the base becoming a rock. Thanks again! All the best Dimitris P.S. Looking forward to see the restoration of the Hamilton sensitive drill press

@@JimmysCanal Yes, it will be done soon. Been working 80 hours/week at my job, but it's slowing down. Not much left to do on the drill!

Try to rest my friend, 80 hours/week is too much. Looking forward for the video, take care! Dimitris

Thank you Marc, your support means a lot to me!! More videos to come and that's for sure. I know my friend, the most important is we all be well and safe, all the other things are coming on second place. Looking forward for the day to meet you and shake your hand my friend. You and your loved ones be always well and safe. Your friend Dimitris

Σε ευχαριστώ πολύ, να είσαι καλά φίλε μου! Δημήτρης

Thank you very much Nick, your support means a lot to me! Take care my dear friend Dimitris

@@JimmysCanal It is also nice to see Kostas in action :)

Thank you Yann, I appreciate your comment! Yes the base its really solid, especially when the leveling feet tighten against the floor the base becoming a rock. Glad to share as always. Take care my friend Dimitris

Hi, I’m Flora, a sales manager of WEISS machine. Thanks for your complementary of our machine. We can have a video call to show you our factory and machines😊😊

Σε ευχαριστώ πολύ Κωστή και όχι μόνο για το σχόλιο! Να είσαι καλά. Πιστεύω να τα πούμε σύντομα και από κοντά. Δημήτρης

Thank you for your comment sir, I appreciate it! It's true, without the help from my friends it would been very difficult to make this stand! Although the stand I've made its heavy, solid and functional, there is always room for improvment; so I'm sure that what you're going to made will be better, enjoy the making of it as well your new mill! Thanks again. All the best Jimmy

Thank you so much for the comment! More to come, soon! All the best Jimmy

Thank you so much for your comment, I really appreciate it! Regards from Greece Jimmy

Σε ευχαριστώ πολύ! Καλή συνέχεια. Δημήτρης

Thanks for your comment Adam, I appreciate it! Glad to hear that you like the base. As for presetting the DRO, you can set it either for downward or upward feed. If you want to make an inside groove for instance, you can lock the spindle at a specific depth zeroing the DRO, then preset it using the upwards arrow to the needed value; now you can feed the spindle upwards to the preset value. All the best Jimmy

Thank you so much for the comment Tom, I appreciate it! Cheers Jimmy

Hello Damien, Thank you very much for the comment, I appreciate it! Of course I can; the total height of the base including the casters is 86cm/33.85in. (the height of the casters are 9cm/3.54in). For my height (I am 1.8m/5.9ft) its perfect and really comfortable to work with the mill. Thanks again. Regards from Greece Jimmy

Thank you so much my friend! It's funny though, I was thinking of you yesterday as well. Glad to know that everything is ok for you too! Take care Dimitris

Hello Paul, Thank you so much for your comment! The hour meter it's just only for watching lubrication periods or anything else that may need in case of maintenance. Take care too Dimitris

@@JimmysCanal Thank you

So nice to hear you Milan! Thanks for the comment I appreciate it! I promise that I'll be careful; I had a similar expirience witm my mini lathe a few years ago. Yes, I'm on Facebook, just now I sent you a friendship request. Be well and safe. Regards from Greece Dimitris

Καλημέρα Μιχάλη. Σε ευχαριστώ πολύ για το σχόλιο, το εκτιμώ! Έχω δουλέψει στη φρέζα σχεδόν όλα τα υλικά, (πλαστικά, μη σιδηρούχα μέταλλα, ατσάλια, σκληρυμένα ατσάλια, ακόμα και ξύλο). Όσο για την ακαμψία, τη σταθερότητα και τους κραδασμούς που ρωτάς, δεν είχα κανένα πρόβλημα μέχρι τώρα. Έχω κάνει κάποιες βασικές μετρήσεις, αλλά όπως είναι κατανοητό με τα μετρητικά όργανα, τον χώρο και τις λίγες γνώσεις που διαθέτω είναι αδύνατον να ‘’ξεσκονίσω’’ το μηχάνημα. Αυτό που μπορώ στα σίγουρα να πω είναι ότι, για ερασιτεχνική χρήση είναι μια πολύ καλή επιλογή και αν κάποιος είναι προσεκτικός μπορεί να πετύχει πολύ καλές ακρίβειες. Ζητώ συγγνώμη για την σχεδόν λακωνική απάντηση αλλά δυστυχώς δεν είναι δυνατόν να απαντήσω πιο αναλυτικά εδώ, θα έγραφα για ώρα. Αν θέλεις μπορούμε να μιλήσουμε στο τηλέφωνο πιο αναλυτικά· θα βρεις το mail μου στη σελίδα με τις πληροφορίες του καναλιού, στείλε μου ένα τηλέφωνο αν θέλεις για να σε καλέσω. Ευχαριστώ και πάλι για το σχόλιο. Καλή συνέχεια! Δημήτρης

Καλησπέρα ξάδελφε, ευχαριστώ πολύ να είσαι καλά. Φιλία και από μένα.

Hello Tom, I apologize for the late reply. Now, about the quill DRO you asked; it's really very simple to use the preset function. Lets say that you need to mill a slot in a part, 3mm deep; the steps are: first you need to engage the quill with the fine feed (used the knurled screw at the center of the quill handle). Use the fine feed knob and zero your cutter by just touching the part, then zero the DRO. Now you hold down the zero button, in approx. 3 seconds you will see the letter 'S' blinking at the top right corner of the display. Use the down arrow button to set -3mm, once you set it press the zero button again. Now that the value has set the only you need to do is to turn the fine feed knob until the display shows zero. I hope that this helps a bit. All the best Jimmy

@@JimmysCanal Yes that does help, thank you very much for explaining it so well. Seems odd, and a shame that the manufacturer (Weiss), did not know this. Would you mind if I send your explanation to them? It would be my way of subtly mocking them, as I think it is incomprehensible that they wouldn't know this. Not unbelievable though, as I ordered it with DRO installed, and the manual is written in Chinese - English, and near impossible to understand. Basically rendering it near useless. Fortunately I was told they are aware of this, and are working on a tutorial video to put out. Thank you once again my friend

I'm sorry once again for the delayed reply Tom, (short vacations). Glad to know that my answer helped you. When I uploaded this video, I sent the link as well to Weiss customer support, I never received a reply or something, I belive they only care to sell; explaining them how the quill DRO works I think would be waste of time. As for the DRO manual you said, there is an application were you can upload scans from the text you want to translate, with 95% accuracy in translation; search Xynudu's channel: ru-vid.com he's mention on that app. in one of his videos. Regards from Greece Jimmy

@@JimmysCanal well thank you once again for the tip on getting some information. When I ordered my machine, I dealt with the president of the company, and that is who I still email when I need some info, or to give some. I attached the explanation you gave me to an email to him, and he responded to say once again that the bottom 2 buttons serve no purpose on my machine, they only work when that readout is put on some other machines. He's wrong of coarse, once explained so well by you, I have used it as it was meant to be. He seemingly can't be convinced how his own machine works. I did give you credit for the info provided to him. When I first got the machine, I emailed him with pictures of several things wrong with the design and assembly. He was kind enough and not too proud to admit I had good suggestions, to the point he would be willing to pay me for the changes I suggested. I don't want any money, just feel I shouldn't have to redo so many obvious flaws. That said, I do think it is a good machine, could be much better if not for cutting pennies from the cost, and dinner kind of quality control before shipping. Thank you again my over seas friend. Tom from northern USA

@@JimmysCanal I should add that the manual is in English, but in a Chinese English worded format, if you know what I mean. Very difficult to comprehend what it says.

Thank you for the comment and your recommendation my friend! Honestly speaking, I don't know anything about electrical connections; my dear friend Kostas who is an Electrical engineer made all the wiring, so I know that what he did is definitely right. Thanks again! All the best Jimmy

Dear friend, Hello and thanks for your comment. I know really well what you are talking about and I knew what I was doing the time of the installation. Generally speaking you would be right in case of thin wires. In our case there is no point to complicate the wiring since the main line from the electrical panel is 16A with a 3x2,5mm² cable. All the connections of the milling machine that I installed have the same size with the main line (3x2,5mm²). So, there is no fear of cable stress because the cables are according to the line fuse of the electrical panel. For currents more than 16A the fuse will trip. On the other hand, the loads will be really low (eg: DRO supply or some lights). I hope you agree. All the best, Kostas

@@KonstantinosKalleris Hi Konstantinos, thank you for your detailed explanation. After all I believe that this is the correct way.

Thank you very much! All the best Jimmy

Many thanks!! Cheers Jimmy

Hi, I'm using an MT3 ER25 collet chuck made by Gurkan and a collet set (with 5μm accuracy) made by the same company: www.gurkan.com/ Here is a PDF with chucks and collets: www.gurkan.com/GURKAN_2023_TOOLHOLDER_AND_COLLET_CATALOGUE_LR.pdf go to pages 49 and 78 to see the chucks and the collet sets respectively. Cheers Jimmy

@@JimmysCanal Thank You

@@JimmysCanal need a buying link

@@yogeshpatre The shop where I bought the chuck and collet set here in Greece unfortunately doesn't have e-shop to send you link. You'll probably need to contact Gurkan company gurkan@gurkan.com and ask to send you a list with suppliers in your country, or in Europe and US

@@JimmysCanal ok Thanks for the Information

Thank you very much! All the best Jimmy

Thank you very much, I appreciate your comment! All the best Jimmy