Brandon, I'm thinking you are getting too fancy if you are adjusting this thing up and down manually. A flat board captured on the sides would create the same motion. You've got a "U" shape going on right now with your 2 sides and center piece so a captured board makes sense. Also I think you need to move the locking groove to the outside however, I'm not sure if your using a leadscrew to control the height. I think I would use two locking knobs. Right now I've got my mind tied up in three projects so take any advice I've given as suggestions, not well thought out answers.
-Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brandon Khoury" <blkhou...@gmail.com> To: <legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 4:02 PM Subject: Re: Shop made Z-axis > I had a few minutes after work to put a couple of the lift design ideas into sketchup. Its not to scale, but I think it gives a good representation of how the sliding plates would work to provide stability and be able to be locked in place. -- 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.
