To All who have contributed, Thank you for all of your comments on my dilemma. I was finally able to get back to my mill today to try all of your suggestions.
I leveled my rails by using a single block of wood at each of the corners and a straight edge lying across the two top rails. With the block in place, I adjusted each the 4 corners for zero clearance between the block and the straight edge. I then checked the router for perpendicularity by using a flat board and a surface cleaning bit just touching the board. There was no visible gap with the bit rotated in all directions. Then came the test. I turned a cylinder. The results were quite good I think. Attached is a chart of the results. The cylinder is 16 3/4" long. The diameter is approximately 2.7 depending where you measure. The chart shows difference of .019" between one end and the other. That is real close to 1/64". I think I can live with that even though I would like it to be .000". What I find interesting is that the variation is not linear. At the headstock end, it is 2.723, at 10" it is 2.700, and the tailstock end is 2.704. I don't know what that means or if it is important. I'm hoping one of you can help me out there. This has been quite an experience and I know a whole lot more about this machine now than I did when I bought it! I've got one more question though. How freely should the carriage move along the Y axis and the X axis? I've got it moving quite easily along the Y axis but not so much on the X axis. Is that the nature of the beast or do I need to do something more to tune it up better? Thanks again for all of your help and patience, Jim Riggen On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 7:18:22 AM UTC-6, Curtis wrote: > Good morning Don > A funny note here, I too had a problem with binding when moving the > carriage , Mike P. came over and looked at my machine (this was YEARS ago.) > I told him that I took everything apart, with the only exception the > carriage assembly its self, (it said in my manual to not touch that, due to > it being factory set.) Well after looking at my set up, Mike noted that > there was a binding with my slides, and they had to be coming form the > carriage. so He loosened the screws on my carriage and re-tightened them, I > could not believe how much of a difference that made, > > ‘…when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, > however improbable, must be the truth. a quote form > > ’Sherlock Holmes' > > I am glad that you found you improbable truth. Now lets start making some > saw dust. ;-) > > C.A.G. > > > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Don W." <dwi...@hotmail.com <javascript:>> > *To: *"Legacy Ornamental Mills" <legacy-orna...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>> > *Sent: *Tuesday, February 21, 2017 2:59:10 AM > *Subject: *Re: Accurate setup > > Yes, I'm much happier with the finish now. Tim, when I took the router > carriage off, there was about 2 inches of loose felt on all ends. At the > time I thought maybe sawdust had gotten between the felt and the bracket, > so I cut off the loose felt. I have always had problems with binding when > pushing this hand, so hopefully that trimming also fixed that problem. I > think I've finally disassemble and re-assembled every part on this machine > now. :-) I appreciate all the help. >> >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to legacy-orna...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at > https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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