Hello Joe. You have an Old Steely unit. That's Neat ! Ive heard a lot about those over the years but I still have not had the honor to work with one of those units yet. As I understand it, the biggest problem with the steel rails is the play (or bowing of the steel while under a load.) As I understand it, that is why Legacy went to the Extruded alum. rails. The reason why I ask this is, Could a plywood base be laminated to the rails to stiffen it up? In my mind, Biger is almost always better, My Dream lathe ( the Conover lathe.) has a wooden bed, and can be made to almost any size, depending on the wood. So I was just wondering, if adding wood to the old steely, might help make your old machine into a better one? I would very much like to hear your thought on this. C.A.G.
----- Original Message ----- Tim, Don't know about others, but I have greatly benefited from the group input. I am trying to find time to become proficient with the Legacy (mine's a 72" steel rail) but it seems I only think of it if I have no other solution with other tools. I use other lathes and equipment and I am focusing more of my time on carving architectural items by hand. Seems it is the one item that keeps getting "pushed back" even though I know it would be more beneficial to use it more often. Y'all helped me through tapered reeds and beads on columns and the project turned out great. I promise I will try and give and seek input. I think there are many like me watching on the side but grateful for the work of others. Joe On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Tim Krause < artmarb...@comcast.net > wrote: Hello All, I'm putting on my co-owner hat for a moment. We have had plenty of new members that all said in one form or another that they are here to learn about using the equipment, but I have not seen many ( almost any) questions from the people. Are you finding what you want by looking at the old messages or are you disappointed in what you have read and decided to leave our group? Curt and I are really confused about the future direction of this group and the lack of on topic posts and responses. If you are to shy to post a message to the group, feel free to contact me off the list at artmarb...@comcast.net . Thank you in advance for your input. -Tim -- 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 . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout . -- 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 . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout . -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
