Hi Curt, I was looking through past items that I have collected over the years on the topic of Legacy machine tips, and I hate to say but once again, our resident genius down under beat you to the punch on this one. Not only is his method earth friendly and bio-degradable, it's extremely affordable and flexible.
The white arrows are pointing to newspaper he taped to his router carrier forming an instant dust shield. Did your plastic sheeting work out? I've picked up some 20 gauge vinyl and will give it a try. The newer manual machines have two screws on the front of the router tray to make something like you are talking about easy to make. -Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: CURTIS GEORGE To: Legacy-Ornamental-Mills Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 3:55 PM Subject: dust shield Hello guys. This is my first successful attempt to limit the wood chips from bogging down my rails on my Legacy. (an old 1000ex) Ive found four different ways that did not work. (but why talk about failures? Even though I did learn from each of them.) ;-) Here are a few photos of the screen shield. ( I used vinyl window screening as my chip shield.) This is a very simple jig. Even though Im using screen which lets the fine dust through,this idea works to stop most of the stuff flying into my rails. I am planing to use some soft clear plastic sheeting on my next test run. But here are the results from this test. (look at the pictures) This is to easy. ( I almost cant believe it works as well as it did). I used a piece of vinyl window screen 8"x3" I made a holder that attached to the router on my Legacy. On this test I cut from the tail stock end towards the head stock. I cut on the left side of center (clime milling) Please let me know what you think. There is more to come, on this topic. Until then. talk to you all latter. C.A.G. -- 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.
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