Hello Lewis and Welcome to this topic. I just made a comparison to the look of your machine, It looks very much like the WoodRat system is all that I said. Others in the past tried the WoodRat plunge bars, and some liked them, I have a PorterCable 3 1/2 horse plunge router on my Legacy, I was told that my router is not compatible with the plunge bar set up that WoodRat offers/ or offered at that time. (its been a few years since I last looked.) My needs for my own Legacy system (I have an old 1000 ex A 2002 model.) is not to gain better control, but more plunge depth is my goal, So To be fully honest with you, I'm not all that sure I would use the set up even if I could get my hands on one. I thank you for letting me know more about your Router Boss system. Hopefully someday I will get a first hand experience on how your system works,but at this time, my main interest is in the spindle making element/ornamental turnings. I wish you a good day. And Thank you again. C.A.G. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lewis Stepp To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Cc: 'CURTIS GEORGE' ; hmatyas0...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 3:42 PM Subject: RE: Add on to control depth of cut on the router
Hi Curtis: We are the manufacturer of Router Boss. The plunge assist bar for Router Boss was designed to be used only with the Router Boss and would require some adaptation to be used on the Legacy. Router Boss looks similar, but is an improved design and does not share any parts with WoodRat. The WoodRat PlungeBars are different and were designed to be used either with or independent of the WoodRat machine. We have a supply of WoodRat PlungeBars. If you would like to try one on your Legacy machine then contact us. Lewis Stepp Craftsman Gallery www.ChipsFly.com 513-233-9019 From: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com [mailto:legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of CURTIS GEORGE Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 9:13 AM To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Add on to control depth of cut on the router Ive not heard of the Router Boss. but after looking at there web site, it looks a lot like the Wood Rat system. at least thay work on the same concept. The plunge bar might help get finer control of the plunging movement? Please let me know what you find out. C.A.G. ----- Original Message ----- From: Harvey Matyas <hmatyas0...@gmail.com> To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:31:02 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Add on to control depth of cut on the router I did some more research and the Router Boss has the plunge bar. On Sep 18, 2012 3:30 AM, "curt george" <curtgeo...@wowway.com> wrote: Hello Harvey I've not seen the saw trax unit before, that I pretty neat! There have been a number of different idea on this forum in the past. In the early years the Wood Rat plunge bars were tried, and some people really liked them, I do not know of anyone who now uses them.But it was a simple way to get more control with out a big expensive, or retor fit on the legacy. Mr. Bill Buckley made his own Z axis that fit his old plunge router on his Z axis. I own a SS overhead router, (the older version mid 80's model) the rack-in-pinon movement with sliding dove-tails works well and could be used on the legacy but making a new carriage to hold this set up may be a bigger problem to fit onto the Legacy ? (but very good idea in concept.) I also know that at one time both Tim and Art were talking about making there own Z axis's (perhaps they will chime in on this latter.) but I do not know if ether of them went anywhere with the idea ? Perhaps its a good time to bring back the topic? Since Legacy is not selling there units (z axis) anymore. I have to get to work now. This too is an idea that I think I might like to get into, Making my own new Z axis. take care, and thank you for more idea's I like the saw trax floating router table, I need to take a closer look at that one. ;-) Have a good day. C.A.G. ----- Original Message ----- From:Harvey Matyas To:legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 9:20 PM Subject: Add on to control depth of cut on the router Has anyone any ideas on what to purchase or build to control the depth of the router cut? Like the Saw Trax Floating Router Table on http://www.johngweber.com/jgw/NW/SawTrax/STfrt.htm Or the Shop Smith Pin Router http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/catalog/rm_overarmpinrouter.htm The Shop Smith you can control the depth and lock it in place. I would like the Z axis drive but I believe the Z axis drive is no longer for sale. Shop Notes also has an article on how to build a homemade router lift. I have been looking at the Saw Dust videos by Nick Engler on the router by Shop Smith. Basically, the Legacy could do the same thing as the Shop Smith router in several of his videos. What I like in the Shop Smith router was the way you can control the depth of cut. -- -- -- -- -- --
