Oh Great ! Thank you Kurt. For the falt ribbon job I fortunately cut in both directions successfully and saved a lot of time. I will have a look to the different limit switches set up I can find in this group and decide. Have a nice day. Emmanuel
Le samedi 4 mai 2019 20:59:58 UTC-4, Curt George a écrit : > > Hello Emanuel > Amazon https://www.amazon.com/s?k=limit+switches&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 has a > number of different stiles of switches that you can buy on the cheep. > Granger and McMasters also have limit switches for sale. and so dose > E-bay. > > All depending on why kind of switch you buy, the mounting of the switch on > the Legacy will differ. > I mounted mine on the top rail of the Legacy, Legacy mounted them on the > under side of the rail and used another bracket to contact the switch. > > To make things easier for me to wire I only used on switch, (I normally > cut in one direction on my Legacy.so I saw no reason to have more then one > switch on my machine.) > Also to keep the wiring as neat as possible. I used speaker wire. (Its > cheap and the wires are flexible and tied together making a cleaner looking > set-up.) > > Keep up the good work, I can wait to see what you come up with. > Wish you the best of luck. > C.A.G. > On Saturday, May 4, 2019, 2:16:41 PM EDT, Emmanuel Peluchon < > epel...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > > Hi Kurt and Bill, Thank you for your answer. > It was quite obvious but still I wondered if there was some kind of trick. > I will need to order new switches. Do you have any idea where I can order > LOM compatible limit switches? > Thank you again. > > Le samedi 4 mai 2019 12:08:48 UTC-4, Curt George a écrit : > > Hello Emmanuel > > If I understand your question about the stops. If you use your machine by > the use of your hand cranking, the stops work pretty well, If you are using > a motor to drive your machine, then you need something else, Like a limit > switch to stop the motor. the stops will not or should not be used when > you are using a motor to drive your machine. > > If you are using the motor drive that Legacy sold, they use two limit > switches for there stops. If you are making your own motor drive you need > to make your own limit switch to stop your motor. > I made my own. Here are a few pix. of what I did. > > [image: Inline image] > C.A.G. > > > > On Saturday, May 4, 2019, 9:41:29 AM EDT, Emmanuel Peluchon < > epel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Everyone, I am back mounting and testing my LOM 1800 and have a basic > question. > I am afraid that if I use stops (locking shaft collar or other kind of > improved stops system) to stop the carriage move, is there a risk I damage > the split knut mount which is PLASTIC made on the x axis lead screw or even > worse damage the engine ?! > It seems that stops are good only if you do not using engine, right? > So what about stops is you run the engine on the x axis scew? > Thank you! > > > -- > 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-orna...@ googlegroups.com. > > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/ > group/legacy-ornamental-mills > <https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ optout > <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 > <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to legacy-orna...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > 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.
