Thanks for your thoughts on this Joe, enjoyed looking into the Skoal centering scope. I agree the easiest, (and least costly) method is chucking a pointed bit in the router and centering it into the rotary table then bolting down the table, what frustrated me recently was my rotary table has the original Legacy MDF board top with it's numerous pencil marking and previous centering holes marks/depressions that after numerous on/off installations I'm halfway guessing on where true center is and this has led to off centered work pieces. In an attempt to make for future easier centering when installing the rotary table, yesterday I took the rotary table apart and drilled and tapped a 1/4"-20 hole in the plastic center, the plan is to have a dedicated 1/4" bolt with a point on the top to align with the router centering bit, once centered just remove the pointed bolt from the table. The new plywood rotary tables will have a 1/4" hole dead center, (considering putting a brass or bronze bushing in the center flush to the table surface so the hole doesn't get elongated and then install the aforementioned T-tracks for holding down the work pieces. We all have experienced a loose work piece being chopped up by a ravenous router bit spinning at 10,000rpm, not fun. I really enjoy the rotary table, I've barely scratched the surface on what this accessory can do, just need to improve upon the centering, and hold down fixtures. Shell in Oregon.
On Sunday, December 9, 2018 at 8:44:01 PM UTC-8, rookie wrote: > > Greetings to all. Back in the shop, (my winter hang-out), and looking to > make some fun wood X-mas gifts. I've dusted off the Legacy 900 and > installed the rotary table, always a pain to line up the center of the > router to the center of the rotary table. I watched the Legacy training > dvd's on centering the rotary table and have used that method in the past > but there has to be a faster more accurate way, any thoughts or experience > on this? Also looking to making some hold down jigs on the rotary table, > I've been using double stick tape but that method has some drawbacks, i.e., > often leaves a sticky residue, fails at time to hold down wood piece which > results in ruining the work, also with thin pieces the risk of breaking > while trying to release workpiece from the tape/table. I picked-up some > nice grade 3/4" plywood today with the intention of making several rotary > tables with different hold down features, T-Tracks come to mind as these > have a lot of assorted accessories you can use with a T-Track. Shell in > Oregon. > -- 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.
