Hello Michael, Congratulations on getting a 1200. I don't know what you have in mind for it, but I think of it as the bed post model.
Usually spraying the carriage rail with dyna glyde is enough, but not long ago I could barely get y-axis to move and noticed that when it did, it got stuck again. Finally, I unscrewed and removed the tophat bearings and found that between the bearings sawdust had become really caked in. If you haven't had a chance to clean beneath the carriage yet, it might be worth while. As for the vibrations, I haven't encountered that problem. I'm sure someone else might have some insight. Begat On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Michael Garrison Stuber < mtgstu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > I recently picked up a 1200 used. I've seen them for years and > finally bought one. I've upgraded it with a chuck, as well as adding a > morse taper tailstock so I could add a live center. I'm considering adding > a drive motor, and I'd love some advice. > I have a bigger problem at the moment though. When my router is > running there is enough vibration that the handle on the Y axis vibrates > until the heaviest part reaches the lowest point. To improve this, I > switched out the default hand wheel with a better balanced speed handle > like you might find on a bridgeport mill. It helped a little, but not > enough. Thus, I'll get the Y in the right spot, fire things up, and then > it (very slowly) moves. Has anybody else run into this? Any tips? > > -- > Michael Garrison Stuber > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to > legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
