Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-22 Thread CURTIS GEORGE
Pretty neat idea! Thanks. C.A.G. - Original Message - From: "Bill Bulkeley" To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 11:56:35 AM Subject: RE: gear carriage bearing upgrade Yes that is exactly the idea on the outside you have all t

RE: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-22 Thread Bill Bulkeley
-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade Hello and good morning everyone. Bill are you suggesting to extend the Y axis rails, and basicly turning a Legacy into a Large Revo unit to cut form the out-side of the machine rails ? I think that I like that

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-22 Thread CURTIS GEORGE
iunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills" To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 5:28:24 AM Subject: Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade bill,      totally agree on the weight issue and the stress factor on the bearings...it is a concern...but i figure

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-22 Thread 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
to do the work. > > Bill > > > > > > *From:* legacy-orna...@googlegroups.com [mailto: > legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com ] > *Sent:* Thursday, 22 January 2015 11:38 AM > *To:* legacy-orna...@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: gear carriage bearin

RE: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-21 Thread Bill Bulkeley
@googlegroups.com] Sent: Thursday, 22 January 2015 11:38 AM To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade hey bill, on a typical legacy, lowering the center brace would be very easy to do...so i do agree with you...how much did you have to

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-21 Thread 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
doing tapers on my extended >>>> machine if i just loosen the split collars a bit...not sure if there would >>>> be an issue on a 1200 or 1500...and then there is the bronze bushing in >>>> the >>>> middle gear...there is a decent amou

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-21 Thread 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
gt; as i did have to cut a little bit off the end of the idler gear carriage to >>> allow the smallest gear to be used...joe >>> >>> On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 10:47:59 PM UTC-5, Tim wrote: >>>> >>>>  >>>> Can you still inst

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-21 Thread 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
;>> the to together, and then the steel to wield onto the original head-stock. >>> the beauty here is your machine really dose not change the chain can be >>> used or not when not turning large spindles. AND THE TIME it would save vs >>> the widening of the machine... &

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-21 Thread 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
ailto: > legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com ] > *Sent:* Thursday, 22 January 2015 8:29 AM > *To:* legacy-orna...@googlegroups.com > *Cc:* curtg...@wowway.com > *Subject:* Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade > > > > well, that concept would work with a machine that does not ha

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-21 Thread Okla Mike (Liltwisted)
he machine... Again just an idea to mull over. C.A.G. *From: *"'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills" > *To: *legacy-orna...@googlegroups.com *Sent: *Wednesday, January 21, 2015 12:46:20 PM

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-21 Thread Tim Krause
om Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 1:35 PM Subject: Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade a sidebar question, but still pertains to this discussion...does anyone have any info on the gears that legacy used?...were they custom made?...or are they commercially available?...or were they made by le

RE: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-21 Thread Bill Bulkeley
-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com] Sent: Thursday, 22 January 2015 8:29 AM To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Cc: curtgeo...@wowway.com Subject: Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade well, that concept would work with a machine that does not have a center support...and not because of the

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-21 Thread 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
f the machine... >> Again just an idea to mull over. >> C.A.G. >> >> -- >> *From: *"'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills" < >> legacy-orna...@googlegroups.com> >> *To: *legacy-orna...@googlegroups.com >&g

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-21 Thread 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
. > C.A.G. > > -- > *From: *"'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills" < > legacy-orna...@googlegroups.com > > *To: *legacy-orna...@googlegroups.com > *Sent: *Wednesday, January 21, 2015 12:46:20 PM > *Subject: *Re: gear carria

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-21 Thread CURTIS GEORGE
biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills" To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 12:46:20 PM Subject: Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade hi mike!, you might get some answers from the reply i was typing while you were posting yours...i have done

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-21 Thread 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
gt; allow the smallest gear to be used...joe >> >> On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 10:47:59 PM UTC-5, Tim wrote: >>> >>>  >>> Can you still install the smallest gear? >>> >>> -Tim >>> >>> >>> - Original Messag

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-21 Thread 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
- > *From: *"'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills" < > legacy-orna...@googlegroups.com > > *To: *legacy-orna...@googlegroups.com > *Sent: *Wednesday, January 21, 2015 6:10:25 AM > *Subject: *Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade > > and sin

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-21 Thread Okla Mike (Liltwisted)
a Legacy Ornamental Mills *To:* legacy-orna...@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, January 20, 2015 5:58 PM *Subject:* Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade sorry guys, forgot to mention this in my initial e-mail...the needle bearings are in their own steel

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-21 Thread CURTIS GEORGE
" To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 6:10:25 AM Subject: Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade and since we are on the subject of the gear carriage, here is something i will throw out there and see if anyone has any suggestions...in considering( a

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-21 Thread 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
C-5, Tim wrote: >> >>  >> Can you still install the smallest gear? >> >> -Tim >> >> >> - Original Message - >> *From:* 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills >> *To:* legacy-orna...@googlegroups.com >>

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-21 Thread 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
l the smallest gear? > > -Tim > > > - Original Message - > *From:* 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills > *To:* legacy-orna...@googlegroups.com > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 20, 2015 5:58 PM > *Subject:* Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade >

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-20 Thread Tim Krause
Can you still install the smallest gear? -Tim - Original Message - From: 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 5:58 PM Subject: Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade sorry guys, forgot

RE: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-20 Thread Bill Bulkeley
Perhaps a self centring bearing might work if you could find that fitted Bill From: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com [mailto:legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com] Sent: Wednesday, 21 January 2015 12:58 PM To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: gear carriage

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-20 Thread CURTIS GEORGE
To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 8:58:23 PM Subject: Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade sorry guys, forgot to mention this in my initial e-mail...the needle bearings are in their own steel housing, so if you loosen the screws a bit to the spli

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-20 Thread 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
sorry guys, forgot to mention this in my initial e-mail...the needle bearings are in their own steel housing, so if you loosen the screws a bit to the split shaft collars,there is enough allowance for the bearing to move within the confines of the shaft collar to do a taper to your work...in f

Re: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-20 Thread Okla Mike (Liltwisted)
On longer mills this upgrade may not effect tapers too much. But the shorter mills will bind this up, I'm afraid. You should see how sloppy my Wood Chuck is, never ever jumped a tooth. And I have all the fine teeth gears too. Hope this does not become a problem for you. Only way to tell is

RE: gear carriage bearing upgrade

2015-01-20 Thread Bill Bulkeley
Can the mill still do tapers I have found that I like a bit of slop in everything in the gears and linkage so there is enough movement for when you lower one end of the rails to mill tapers. Bill From: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com [mailto:legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups