Oh, I see, you might have something there. Rocking the leadscrew back and forth to get the pumping action. I don't think this would work because the leadscrew is 1/4" pitch per revolution of the screw. Your range on the reciprocator is about 1/4 turn or a little more so you would only get 1/6" of amplitude in the wave. Another thing to factor in is the backlash of the nut as well. Now if the motion can be amplified it would make an adjustable sine wave possible.
Hmm, this idea might have more merit than I'm currently thinking. The reciprocator could provide a variable amount of travel that I'm ideally looking for. Feel free to try and come up with something. -Tim PS, thanks for trimming the post. ----- Original Message ----- From: Andy To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 12:22 PM Subject: Re: New Rotary Table Pattern - Waves Yes. But if you are hand cranking the spindle (instead of the X-axis)and reversed the recipocator mounting, you would make the X-axis oscillate (Travel in the positive and negative direcion on the X-axis). I just don't know if it would work given the factory pitches. -- 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.
