You would know if you had a 4x set they are totally different. but Tim has a point if you did they reach a lot further
Bill From: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com [mailto:legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com] Sent: Friday, 13 February 2015 9:36 PM To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: enlarging turning capacity of a legacy tim, check my post from feb. 9th...there are photos of what is a typical legacy gear set up from a typical machine and a photo of the expanded gear train of what i am hoping will work out in regards to a modification/lengthening...it was laid out according to some rough measurements i made...i don't believe i have that 4X gear set...isn't that the one you said came with the model 2000?...and it has a different type of gear carriage?...if the 4X is that type, than for sure i do not have it...i just have all the other typical gear sets...basically the plan is to leave the direction gear as it was...it will still slide on the carriage as originally intended...lengthen the carriage as necessary to then allow a double gear set up to also slide on the carriage(this is a simple cut and weld as i do have a second carriage)...all in line with the directional gear...this will give me the length i need...the new double gear set up will be another directional gear that i had and the matching 2 1/2" gear from an extra gear set i had...the new directional gear already has that small bearing built into it, with the two large washers on either side of the gear, and the bracket that holds it and slides on the carriage...the gear from the gear set has the small square hole in it(originally intended to go onto the lead screw) which i will turn on a lathe to accept a new small bearing i purchased, which is the same bearing as in the directional gear... so it will be the original 2 1/2" directional gear with washers, driving a 2 1/2" gear with no washers, driving another 2 1/2" directional gear with the washers...this is all happening between the lead screw and the idler shaft at the center/bottom of the carriage...between the idler shaft and the head stock remains as it originally was...this is all in theory and a quick mock up laid out on paper...i'll know more when the head stock is on the widened machine and i can do actual, real mock ups...and as i mentioned before, i am considering making a quick, wooden, mock-up carriage to try this idea out...and all of this is possible only because of all the extra pieces i have left over from the second machine used to do the extension, which started this whole mess, LOL...if i did not have these extra pieces, this aspect of this mod certainly would have been much more difficult...i feel lucky that things worked out as well as they did because i had the second machine...hope i have explained it well...let me know what you think of it all...thanks...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. -- 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.
