Re: enlarging turning capacity of a legacy

2015-02-12 Thread Okla Mike (Liltwisted)
There is no better place to start than in it's final point. Way to go girl friend! Michelle OK On 2/12/2015 8:23 AM, 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills wrote: okay ladies, here's another update...welded together one of the two head stocks, in a jig as previously posted...took care to cent

RE: enlarging turning capacity of a legacy

2015-02-12 Thread Bill Bulkeley
Your joeacy is looking good and almost done it will be worth it in the end when you turn your first Big column . like the name joeacy you can hardly still call it a legacy now Bill From: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com [mailto:legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com]

Re: enlarging turning capacity of a legacy

2015-02-12 Thread CURTIS GEORGE
Good going Joe. I think your slots are the weak points on your tail stock, as well as the cause of your twisting.adding a plate over most of your open spaces would be a good call. (you can always paint it latter.) ;-p Joe have you figured out how you are going to deal with you gear train yet? I

Re: enlarging turning capacity of a legacy

2015-02-12 Thread 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
hey curtis!...regarding the gear train, right now i am leaning towards lengthening it...it seems easy enough...i only had to buy a small bearing for the one 2 1/2" gear...the other one already has the bearing...otherwise, i have everything i need...if i did do a chain set up, i would still have

Re: enlarging turning capacity of a legacy

2015-02-12 Thread Tim Krause
Which gear set do you have, I'm assuming the 4x. My vote would be to modify the direction gear with larger gears and lengthen the arm. I hope that is the direction you are going. -Tim - Original Message - From: 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills To: legacy-ornamental-m