Hi Denis, I too would like to see pictures of how it was done but from what I recall from seeing the videos there is a bracket that holds the motor off the end. My guess is legacy machined a small hub to mount to the stepper motor and bolted on a laser cut gear to match the 88 tooth main gear.
The size of motor should be sized to the work intended. Too small and you will loose steps. Too big and they tend to be slower. I would suggest nema 34 motors at around 640oz as a starting point. Maybe Art could comment on this since he has built two version of a cnc. Check out his Web site for more information. http://turningaround.org/MechMate/Mechmate.htm http://turningaround.org/joecnc_hybrid.htm -Tim PS. I need to put my moderator hat on and say let's not respond to Legacy's personal record of email responses. Thank you in advance for avoiding that topic. ----- Original Message ----- From: "denis" <pinardde...@videotron.ca> To: "Legacy Ornamental Mills" <legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 6:49 AM Subject: Transforming Legacy to a cnc ??? > Hello every body out there > > I was wondering if some of you did transform there legacy 900 or 1200 > with the Performance Series CNC upgrade. That it is not available > anymore. > I wrote to Legacy to to have some information if it was possible to > buy the CNC upgrade. they did not right back I wonder why. > > Is it complicated to install. > I would like to transform my legacy 900 to a cnc, what kind of step > motor do i need (Holding Torque (256 oz-in) or (311 oz-in)) > > Is Mach 3 complicated to learn and is it difficult to do the setup for > the spindle. > Dose anybody have some picture of how the step-motor is fix to the > spindle. > > Thank you > Denis > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. > To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills?hl=en.
