Hello Joe On a lot of Porter Cable plunge routers you can use the limit rod (THE screw that keeps the plunge router from coming apart. on mine there was two locking nuts on a 3/8" rod.) as a fine adjustment screw.The screw can be replaced with a longer one, and then add a knob and locking nut onto the screw... (perhaps a piece of piping to make the knob long enough to get by the router body?) but the screw will give you more control and still leave you with the plunging quick adjustment ability that your router always had. Its just an idea?
I second Tim's suggestion Call Legacy and talk to one of there sales men. Legacy for some reason dose not respond to there E-mails, but they do answer the Phone. ;-) Please let us know how things work out for you. C.A.G. ----- Original Message ----- Thanks Tim, I looked on the Legacy site but didn't see the nut online. I will call them Monday. I am using a Porter Cable plunge router but it is not easy to "fine adjust" for increasing, decreasing depth of cut etc. The Router Raizer looks promising. I'm going to try and find some reviews. I appreciate your usual ardent help with the site. On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Tim Krause < artmarb...@comcast.net > wrote: Hi Joe, The split nut is still available from Legacy. Call them for a replacement. Don't bother emailing them. I'm not familiar with the router that you have on the machine. Have you seen an accessory called a Router Raizer? It's a screw and a handle to raise and lower your router by a small increment. Is that the kind of control that you are looking for, or are you looking for more plunge depth and rapid raising and lowering the modern z-axis provided? I don't recall anyone ever talking about adding a z-axis to an old steel machine, so you could be the first which is why there is a lack of responses. -Tim <blockquote> ----- Original Message ----- From: Joe Gassen To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 3:31 PM Subject: Senior Newbie Hey Guys! I am having trouble searching the archives. Forgive me, I know all this has been dealt with before. Perhaps you can just furnish links. I need a new split nut (or upgrade) for the lead screw on a old steel rail machine and: also is there a reasonable Z axis upgrade for it with maybe a screw to raise and lower the router? Just dug the mill out today and a rope turning for a dresser applied molding. Thx Joe -- 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 . </blockquote> -- 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.
