Pretty Slick! I missed your split collar/bearing concept the other day, But now I see what you were talking about. Next the template follower! ( I cant wait!) Keep up the good work Joe.
C.A.G. ----- Original Message ----- From: "'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills" <legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com> To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 7:17:46 PM Subject: Re: "Z" axis template follower today's progress...and hey curtis, bearing set up, as you inquired about...set up the 1/8" metal as i described previously...all went as planned...two pieces of 1 1/2" that slid into the legacy rail and some 1" to "box" it out, so to speak...welded the split collars to this assembly...held in place with one 1/4-20 set screw...easily removable...the split collar holds the bearing, which has a flange on it...slid the 5/8" shaft in with the chain sprockets...some 5/8" shaft collars on the end and all is in place and working as it should...moved the acme thread assembly to the front side of the router carriage(originally was on the back side) as the acme rod was right where the shaft for the chain sprockets wanted to be...this was not such a bad thing as the linear bearing rails and carriages had pushed the carriage outward...just a couple of black spacer blocks did the job...just need to now set up the chains and this mod will be done...some minor additions will follow later, like an arm to control the router carriage's up and down movement when following a pattern...an arm to extend outward on the backside of the "Z" axis that will have the capability of holding various diameters of small bearings that will ride on any pattern/template... and some type of brackets that will hold the template onto the mill itself...these brackets will have adjusters built into them to set up a template precisely...hope to make a video of all this soon...waiting for spielberg to return my call...as always, all comments welcome...joe <blockquote> <blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> -- 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.
