tim, there are no wing nuts,,,there is a single, socket head, allen key bolt holding the solid acme nut to the carriage
-----Original Message----- From: Tim Krause <artmarb...@comcast.net> To: Legacy Ornamental Mills <legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com> Cc: Legacy Ornamental Mills <legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wed, Aug 2, 2017 6:14 pm Subject: Re: need help in identifying a 1500 (?) Joe, Do you have two wing nuts that connect the router base to your solid acme nut on the y axis? That also appears to be another method to allow the axis to float with the solid nut version. Sent from BlueMail On Aug 2, 2017, at 2:16 PM, 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills <legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com> wrote: wow tim!...incredible photos and many thanks...here is some additional info that is now better explained, thanks to you...I do not have the "L" shaped, nylon blocks on the underside of the Y carriage, as I now see in your photos...they were replaced by a previous owner with an oak wood and ball bearing set up that is a bit sub-standard for me (i.e. rube Goldberg)...I also see that the Y axis acme screw has it's own split nut...my Y axis does not have a split nut, just a solid, nylon block, with the 5/8-4 acme thread in it and attached to the router mounting plate...so there is currently no way to disengage the Y movement from the threaded rod...I can mod that out without much work with some of the extra parts I have, so no issue there, but I am glad to have seen it in your photos...I have already begun setting up the X axis on a linear bearing...and actually it seems it will be quite an easy job and at a nominal expense($120.00 +/- total)...it will not allow the carriage to be lifted off the rails and the tolerances(vertical and front-to-back) will be very tight and yet allow the carriage to slide easily...and the tolerances will be easily adjustable, if ever needed...I am also converting the headstock to ball bearings...it currently has some 1/4", black nylon "pads" as a bearing, but I could see those not lasting very long, especially under heavier-than-normal loads...that too was not expensive, but will require jamming a lot into that small headstock "box"...but I have laid it out and it is doable...and I will be posting photos, of course...not going to go the full monty with this machine, as I did before, LOL...but just some needed repairs/upgrades that were necessary, and I thought while I was doing that, why not spend a little more time and make it a better machine...my intention is to use this machine for smaller work and leave the big guy set up to do the longer poles and larger work we do...and if I should ever get a manual, you will be the first person I send a copy to...again, many 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 https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
