Re: Shipping a LOM and/or Heavy accessories

2012-05-17 Thread curt george
It sounds like you got your self a good deal. did you get any teaching materials, like videos or paperwork with your new mill? There is a small learning curve when it comes to useing the O.R Mill. but its not that hard to figure out. Tim K has saved (what Art Ransom started. ) a learing page w

Re: Shipping a LOM and/or Heavy accessories

2012-05-17 Thread Dexter Bland
I watched a machine demo at a woodworking show so I gained a lot of general knowledge from that. I have watched the videos on their web page (you-tube) as well. I do have the manual that has the projects to show what it will do and have made several of the hammer head walking sticks for presents th

Re: Making Z-axis upgrade

2012-05-17 Thread Andy
Dexter, I was surfing the web the other day for router accessories and came across a fixture called "router angle ease" (do a google image search of it). It looks pretty slick and there are a few people out that that have made their own. I think this may be a good starting point for a home made Z-

Re: could someone explain the formula

2012-05-17 Thread curt george
OK I'm back. I see the problem here you are right about the 45 deg. angle for an 8 sided column, but The "L" should be 3" and the "H" 2" so your angle is correct but the length of slat is not what is should be.. Lets try changing some of the numbers around and see if??? I like this one better.

Re: could someone explain the formula

2012-05-17 Thread curt george
Hello everyone. the pictures did you come thought. ( I am sorry about that.) Try going to http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/04/s/articles/birdsmouth/index.cfm#online-calc and putting in the numbers in there calculators. 1,2,3, should give you all the parts you should need. L is the length of th

Home Made Rotary Table

2012-05-17 Thread Tim Krause
Please do post your version of a simple rotary table. We have a lot of frugal lurkers on the list that would be interested. They are just too shy to ask. -Tim - Original Message - From: "Dexter Bland" To: "Legacy Ornamental Mills" Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 3:05 AM Subject: Re: Sh

Re: could someone explain the formula

2012-05-17 Thread Tim Krause
Is it safe to say that you understand now where you went wrong? Your version is a pretty cool variation! -Tim - Original Message - From: James Edgell To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 1:11 PM Subject: Re: could someone explain the f

Re: could someone explain the formula

2012-05-17 Thread James Edgell
you lost me, if you go look at the magnate site they show a bit that cuts a 45 degree angle and with 8 pieces forms a 8 piece column, so using their formula , with 2 inch thick wood, with a 2 inch cut depth on each side of the cut, i need 3 and three eights width across the board to form an 8 inch

Re: could someone explain the formula

2012-05-17 Thread Okla Mike (Liltwisted)
You centered the cut on the wide flat of the board. You need to com at it from the side On 5/17/2012 8:15 PM, James Edgell wrote: you lost me, if you go look at the magnate site they show a bit that cuts a 45 degree angle and with 8 pieces forms a 8 piece column, so using their formula , with

Re: could someone explain the formula

2012-05-17 Thread Tim Krause
Ok, It's picture time. :-) The version on the left is a correct birdsmouth joint as Mike was describing. Your version cut the 90 degree angle in the wrong face as shown on the right. -Tim - Original Message - From: James Edgell To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com

Re: could someone explain the formula

2012-05-17 Thread Tim Krause
One last plan. I've attached a pdf that shows the exact dimensions to cut your staves to. It will create an 8" column. -Tim - Original Message - From: Tim Krause To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 6:35 PM Subject: Re: could someone ex

Re: could someone explain the formula

2012-05-17 Thread James Edgell
now i understand, hahahahaha On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Tim Krause wrote: > ** > One last plan. I've attached a pdf that shows the exact dimensions to cut > your staves to. It will create an 8" column. > > -Tim > > > - Original Message - > *From:* Tim Krause > *To:* legacy-orn

Re: Home Made Rotary Table

2012-05-17 Thread Dexter Bland
I post a couple pictures and explanation in a new post. This is getting off topic. On May 17, 7:38 pm, "Tim Krause" wrote: > Please do post your version of a simple rotary table.  We have a lot of > frugal lurkers on the list that would be interested.  They are just too shy > to ask. > > -Tim > >

Re: could someone explain the formula

2012-05-17 Thread Tim Krause
Hoorah! Have fun and show us some pictures when you're done. -Tim - Original Message - From: James Edgell To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 6:53 PM Subject: Re: could someone explain the formula now i understand, hahahahaha

Homemade Indexing table

2012-05-17 Thread Dexter Bland
I made a cheap index rotary table that I needed to make some candlestick bases. For each one I sandwiched a 3/4 plywood with two pieces of 1/4" hardboard just smaller than would fit between the rails of my machine. I clipped the corners to make it where I could use the machine to make it round. I m