Last mod your just warming up lol Bill
From: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com [mailto:legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com] Sent: Monday, 9 February 2015 3:35 PM To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: enlarging turning capacity of a legacy another progress report...on a late sunday night no less...i'm in the shop because of a winter storm watch and will sleep here to avoid a traveling headaches in the morning...i must be crazy because i do this often...but without interruptions, i do get a lot done...anyway, the first photo shows a piece of 1" baltic birch added to the top of the base we originally made when the mill was extended...total of 3 pieces, 43", 96" and 43"(mill is 16 ft. long, but less 5" on each end for the bed-height crank wheels)...again, as always, consideration made when it might be necessary to disassemble the machine and move it...so the three pieces disassemble easily...the 96" piece covers the center seam of the base so there is a strength and level improvement here...the width of the new top was calculated to be 1/8" less than the widened mill, front and back so as not to interfere with any accessories or work pieces when milling on the front of the machine...second photo shows the underside of the top as it is overhanging the base and how we used joint fasteners to hold the three pieces together...we use these often in our work and found them to be ideal for the task at hand...there are also plywood strips added to the bottom of the tops to align the new top to the base...tomorrow we begin to reassemble the machine...head stocks and tail stock are cut, but still need to cut and fit pieces to widen them...probably will have all that done and welded by the end of the week...unless i'm snowed in!, then it will be done sooner!...LOL...time to get some sleep...all comments welcome...joe"this is my last mod" biunno -- 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.
