Hello Everyone.When trying to make more OT looking cuts with the Legacy, we
have a few problems, as a matter of fact the Legacy's strongest point is also
its weakest ONE, "the lead screw". Most OT machines do not use one.(but having
said that,)I have had some good results with the Legacy and
Curt and myself have been thinking about the options to create rose engines
cuts for a very long time. So long that I bought a mdf rose engines myself to
get on with actually doing the work! More on this later.
On Dec 6, 2018, 2:49 PM, at 2:49 PM, 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
hey Pat!... can I assume that in your variation, the router carriage is
stationary without the ability to slide along the bed?... I would need the
carriage to move along the X axis so various "pump" action cuts could be
done along a spiral of some sort... so the pumping action needs to be in
Combining several ideas:
Use a variation of Tim's wave attachment
(https://groups.google.com/d/msg/legacy-ornamental-mills/gsFab9dTSr8/h15dZQFqwEMJ)
Run the lever up to a plate on a jack-shaft instead of the leadscrew.
Connect the jack-shaft to a chain-driven Z axis (no leadscrews on Z)
You'll
hey Curt!... not surprised you have thought of this mod in the past... from
what I can tell, you seem to always have "Legacy" on your mind!... LOL!...
anyway, I would think the "pumping" action of the z axis would be better if
it was in-and-out, rather than up-and-down... an in-and-out motion
okay, driving home last night(1 3/4 hours!), came to the conclusion that a
long length of a "wave" pattern for the z axis is not going to work... it
would work when doing spindles, but not when the z axis was stationary and
indexed cuts were desired... and to consider having one set of
