Re: New member and question

[MWF]

Hi Eric,

You've come to the right place for answers. 

Curt is spot on with his advice.  You will be AMAZED at how much "stuff" gets packed/jammed up in the channels of the aluminum extrusions.  Use your cell phone's camera and a strong flashlight to check that the channels are clear.  Then, as Curt suggested, apply Dyna-Glide.  It's Great stuff!

Two more things to check:

1.  That the spacing between the various rails are such that they are as parallel as you can get them.

2.  Refer to Owner's Manual for the Mill as regards the correct positioning of the extrusions.  They have 4 "faces" - and you may think they are all identical.

If the person that did the initial assembly thought that too, you may have an improperly put together Mill.  One "face" has a fine line molded down its center. - longitudinally.  Your manual will instruct you as to which way that face of the extrusion should be oriented.  I don't recall how the manual says to put it - but your manual will specify.

Welcome to The Group.

Mac

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-----Original Message-----
From: 'Curt George' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
Sent: May 16, 2019 12:31 AM
To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: New member and question

Hello Eric

Have you tried Dyna-Glide? its a wax based spray lubricant, This spray should be one of the first tools you need, to keep the  Legacy moving as smooth as possible.

I would suggest to you to clean the rails and slides as well as you can, and then check to see if everything is in the correct placement. You should be able to move the carriage with one or two fingers, it should take ounces . to move the carriage not pounds , start with a break down of the Legacy / Carriage and rails to see if your problem is dirt or mis-alignment.

I wish you luck. Please let us know what you find.

C.A.G.

On Thursday, May 16, 2019, 12:14:58 AM EDT, E Mall <emallette0...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello, my name is Eric and i have had a LOM 900 for about two months.  I have been using it mostly for fun, and for roughing out long spindles for chairs from dried rough split billets from logs.  They make the lathe bounce quite a bit if you dont make them sorta round first.  The LOM is much faster than an electric plane or heaven forbid a drawknife.  Question is: i have read a couple posts on here talking about adjusting to make the axis slide smoothly, and i suffer from the same plight of not being able to slide it by hand at all.  Anyone have any knowledge of how this is done?

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