Hi Brandon, You have a cool job! Your statement about over engineering was pretty funny. There's always a huge gap of knowledge between engineers and machinists. I've had the life experience to have both in my toolbox. Now when I design something I step back and look at it from the machining side more. After all, it needs to be made in the real world. I have seen so many examples of engineers that are fresh out of college that specify tiny radii on objects that are buried in the bottom of molds that they don't under stand why it takes 16 hours to cut out of an aluminum block when a standard larger radii is normally called for. But I digress.
What pitch of screw are you thinking? Have you gotten that far? I missed if you where going to avoid a plunging operation with your new axis. I understood the direction you are going with the tongue and groove. Two thoughts come to mind. Plywood shearing and getting two sets of tongue and groove to seat at the same time might be difficult. A single dado with steel keystock or even uhmw might work better if you are going this route. Is this assembly going to be facing the operator, or facing the headstock? Consider where the locking knob is going to be for ease of use. I think you have something interesting going on, don't let me stop you from building or designing this! I'm just tossing out some food for thought. I'd like to see other get in on this conversation. -Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brandon Khoury" <blkhou...@gmail.com> With all that being said, I have been known to over engineer from time to time. That may have roots in my chosen profession of limb prosthetics. 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.
