Hello Brandon I have been working on a home made Z axis for a few months now. on my own machine.Mine works well and is very stable, but I am not finished with it as yet, so I have not posted any pictures to the group. but I will tell you what Ive done so far. I used a rack-in-pinon carriage and table assembly for an old Shopsmith as my lifting and lowering controls,This gives me the control of the plunge depth that I wanted, 7 1/2". a few tack wields and some square cut nuts, inside the Steel tubes/ rails of the shopsmith parts allows me to hook up my router and or any set up that I may need in the future with little problems. Some Rockler slides and thumb screws to lock the Assembly into place,when in use,gives me a rock solid and plunge depth lock. As I said this is only a proto type and is not yet ready for the show and tell time with the group. but it dose work and so far Im pretty happy with the results. More to come on this project latter. C.A.G.
----- Original Message ----- Has anyone attempted to build a shop made z-axis? I would love to get your thoughts or see your design. I have been working on a design that is based off of Matthias Wandel's router lift design, only inverted. My main concern is increasing plunge depth while maintaining stability. I also cannot decide if I want to incorporate tilting capabilities. Thanks, Brandon -- 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.
