Thanks Tim
I think I will also go with the thumb screw idea. the simpler the better.
With less room for error,means that there is less room for me to make
mistakes.(something I tend to do when Im in a hurry!)
but one word to watch out for, space is the big problem, don't make the spacing
to much or you will have problems with you other gears still fitting your
system. I find 1/8"-1/4" to be the best spacing.
Good luck I will start modifying my gear changer tomorrow morning. (since Im
writing here now, I've lost my window of free shop time. I need to be at work
by 4am if I want to get any work done.and I live an hour away from my work.)
Its time for me to go.
Work calls. ;-)
have a great day.
C.A.G.
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Krause
To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: New project
Hi All,
In my case, my Legacy did not come with both left and right hand spiral
gears. I had to buy my left handed one. I need one for my second machine but
I'm in no rush. Legacy took the gears off of their website, but I think they
only cost $65 for them.
Curt's version would be really handy. Frankly I don't think there is much
demand, but I agree with Curt that it is a pain to swap the gears. I was
thinking of using a thumb screw and only two locations for the gears to be
located in. This would prevent any accidental engagements of the gears. If
anyone is interested, write me an email off list and I will bump up the
priority of making something.
-Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Bulkeley
To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: New project
looks like a good thing perhaps you can make a few of these things and sell
them
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: curt george
To: Legacy Google group
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 7:37 AM
Subject: Fw: New project
Hello Everyone.
Its been a crazy couple of weeks around here for me. Christmas is coming!
What make things worse is I have a lot of projects to get done, besides the
normal holiday stuff. I will be posting pictures of my new puppet stage in a
day or two.
What this is, Is a quick change directional gear changer For my Legacy.
(This is the main reason that I have not been posting in the mornings, I've
been going to work at 3 am to work on this, every day last week.)
I need to make a way to change directional feed on my Legacy with out
taking everything apart.(TIME IS MONEY, OR JUST TIME WASTED! in my case)
It is a simple concept. swing an extra gear into the duplex gear to
change direction. but As most simple things go, it was not quite that easy, My
first attempt used the gears form the original directional gear sets that
legacy makes. The problem was distance between the gears, I could not get a
large gear and a small gear to mesh with all the gear settings that my legacy
uses, if I made it side by side like the right handed set the legacy uses, I
did not have enough room for some of the larger pitch or drive gears, and if I
went smaller, then the smaller gears would not touch with in the gear
adjustment.
As is said, (I think I did?) this set works!!! ;-)
But I can see some minor problems with this set-up, One namely the clamp
that Im using to control the gears movement.
The lock position is good, but when not locked the clamp could move if
bumped.( that would be nasty! both gears touching at the same time, I don't
want to think about the possible damage that would cause!) I will work on a new
clamping lock to start with, and if that doesn't work I will remove the clamp
and add a screw locking adjustment. (More to come on that!)
Thanks to Big Tim on this project, The idea was mine ( I think??? )
first. but it was Tim's gear's that realy saved My day.
I bought a number of gears form Tim a while ago.
Anyhow like I said earlier the gear size was the problem, so what I did
was use Legacy's single (60T) gear and one of Tim's 72T gears to make the
changer work.
First I needed to drill and press in a precisions gear into the 72T gear.
(that was fun, and not as hard as you might think.More on that topic latter.)
Then I need to make the SS guard, and make a bracket to hold the hole set
up. the bracket needed to be rectangle in shape to hold the locking mechanism.
A slot needed to be added for the adjustment lock on the Legacys gear pivit arm
set up,and a pivot point need to be drilled for my gear changer. Most of the
measurements came from the Legacy directional gear set, with one difference
being to position of the hole compared to the original, the hole (pivot point)
I made a little lower, Thinking that It would fix the problems I had on earlier
attempt. The ark of the Duplex gear had to be compensated for, something that
I did not think of on my first attempt, (using the smaller gear.)
Woops! I need to go. (Christmas stuff! )
Here are the pictures.
Please let me know what you think? If you have any incites, Please let me
know.
have a good day! ;-)
C.A.G.
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