Re: rope and beads

2015-01-26 Thread Roger P
Bill It is a “featurete”, that is the official name! Regards Euro Roger From: Bill Bulkeley Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 1:46 PM To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: rope and beads Still looks good, anyway it’s not a mistake it’s a design modification lolo Here is a

RE: New Owner of a Woodchuck MA - Need documentation

2015-01-26 Thread Bill Bulkeley
I have not seen that before does anyone know if it’s a legacy part or is it from something else Or is it a homemade thing. Being long it might be good for spirals the genuine legacy thin stock support doesn’t work perfectly on coarser single start barleys a longer support is much better

RE: Stuck pieces on Mill - does this work?

2015-01-26 Thread Bill Bulkeley
Post some pictures of your parts max some one on here will be able to identify what they are And the best way of all to learn is to do, make stuff good or bad post it here and you will get praised or told what you did incorrect ,remember there are no failures just fire wood lolo. That’s the

Re: Stuck pieces on Mill - does this work?

2015-01-26 Thread parr454 via Legacy Ornamental Mills
Kroil is a good product. I use it in the liquid form. Peter -Original Message- From: Cole Andrews coleandrew...@gmail.com To: Legacy group legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, Jan 25, 2015 11:47 pm Subject: Re: Stuck pieces on Mill - does this work? Loctite makes a

RE: rope and beads

2015-01-26 Thread Bill Bulkeley
Still looks good, anyway it’s not a mistake it’s a design modification lolo Here is a pic of the bit if anyone wants to see https://www.magnate.net/v/vspfiles/photos/352-2.jpg i was always going to again mount like I had pre fire a fly cutter in a drill mounted in a small drill press

RE: rope and beads

2015-01-26 Thread Bill Bulkeley
Yes that’s the word I was trying to think of featurete i have done quite a few featuretes my self over the years lolo Bill From: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com [mailto:legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Roger P Sent: Tuesday, 27 January 2015 12:52 AM To:

RE: enlarging turning capacity of a legacy

2015-01-26 Thread Bill Bulkeley
Very nice i will be interested to see if the gear linkages will still reach to fit all the gears when finished This will really extend the size of work you will be able to do Bill From: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com [mailto:legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com] Sent:

Re: enlarging turning capacity of a legacy

2015-01-26 Thread 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
also considering a brace/gusset where the cross brace meets the vertical support...it would be shaped so as not to be in the way of the largest turning diameter, but be as large as possible...will determine if it is needed once the modified machine is completely reassembled...joe On Monday,

Re: enlarging turning capacity of a legacy

2015-01-26 Thread mwfoscue
Dang Joe! You remind me of the old Memorex commercials: "Is it live? - Or is it Memorex?"Is it Legacy? - or is it "Joe's"? You could convince me that you worked at Legacy - in their fabrication/skunkwerks dept.!VERY nice work Joe! I KNEW you'd have something bigger to show us.Thanks for

Re: enlarging turning capacity of a legacy

2015-01-26 Thread 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
recently, as i was disassembling and playing with my machine, i noticed something that never dawned on me before...there seems to be not a single weld on the legacy whatsoever...i find this to be quite unique for a machine as complex as this is and a major accomplishment in engineering and

Re: enlarging turning capacity of a legacy

2015-01-26 Thread mwfoscue
Joe,After your latest comments about there being no welds on the LOM - I take back my comment that I suspect you used to work there. If you had - LOTS of the Mill would have been welded - you LOVE welding - and do it well! I'll bet you even have welded steel door frames throughout your house -

Re: enlarging turning capacity of a legacy

2015-01-26 Thread Tim Krause
Joe, Am I seeing this right, you added height to the legs, but didn't increase the slot for the bed? How much wider will the machine be? -Tim PS, trim your posts to be nice to the folks using digest mode. - Original Message - From: 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills To:

Re: enlarging turning capacity of a legacy

2015-01-26 Thread 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
ok, that was just the first salvo...i am expecting quite a bit more...it's all good though...keep 'em coming!...joe...LOL! On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 9:22:19 PM UTC-5, Va Oak wrote: Joe, After your latest comments about there being no welds on the LOM - I take back my comment that I

RE: enlarging turning capacity of a legacy

2015-01-26 Thread mwfoscue
Joe,As I read Bill's comments - I got to thinking: Months ago you told us your business was essentially making "custom drapery rods". In MY mind, drapery rods are no bigger around than maybe THREE INCHES - MAXIMUM!! Yes - some may be 16 feet LONG - but NOT 16" in diameter.Are you now producing

RE: New Owner of a Woodchuck MA - Need documentation

2015-01-26 Thread Bill Bulkeley
Very interesting I have never seen one I wonder if its in the woodchuck manual I’m looking forward to mike possibly posting it so I can see Bill From: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com [mailto:legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com] Sent: Tuesday, 27 January 2015 1:37 AM To:

RE: rope and beads

2015-01-26 Thread Bill Bulkeley
Pretty cool curt if we didn’t have or could not build what you have i guess its just one turn of the cranking handle for each bead spacing. What cutter did you use to cut the bead Bill From: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com [mailto:legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com] On

Re: rope and beads

2015-01-26 Thread CURTIS GEORGE
Hi Bill The first rope beads that I made were done by the hand cranking method, Talk about a long rope... ;-) Using the limit switch is much easer. I used a button cutting bit from Magnate. (#352) , but did not go the full plung depth.  (I did not relise my mistake until I was more than half