Mike if you have any, please send photos of the machine you have been looking at. We can offer some tips.
If you do reach out to Legacy for drive gears, let us know how it goes. If you strike out there, it is possible that I may have a spare set of the 7 drive gears to sell in order to encourage a new user like yourself but I will have to check.
Jeff from Connecticut Sent from my iPhone On Dec 24, 2022, at 6:50 AM, Tim Ziegler <timjzieg...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes much better deal for sure and he shows most of whats with the Machine. Kind Regards,
Timothy J. Ziegler Ziegler WoodWork & Specialty 14171 160th Ave. Foreston MN 56330
320-294-5798 shop 320-630-2243 cell
Woops! this one is a much better deal, for $1000.00 less.
Now Im going to bed. ;-)
C.A.G.
This mill in NOT Cheap, but it dose look to have everything anyone would need to get started. I have no first hand info on this. I do wish the owner showed better photo's. Lots of questions still need to be answered, But form the photo's. we know that there is a mobility kit. turn/Rotary table. there is a new stile template follower. some router bits and rack. I can see a ball bearing pillow block on the Y axis. A dust collection shroud. Someone put a lot of money into this machine, I would hope that all the gears are there? (at least the basic drive gears and standard gear set.)
That's it for now.
Nice eye candy! Have a good night.
C.A.G.
Yup good advice Bill. And the more mills the merrier lol. Kind Regards,
Timothy J. Ziegler Ziegler WoodWork & Specialty 14171 160th Ave. Foreston MN 56330
320-294-5798 shop 320-630-2243 cell Any mill can be made longer with replacement rails and leadscrew its getting it that’s the problem You may have to buy a couple of mills to get enough to get all you want, some of us obsessed legacy owners have bought several To finally get what we want right Tim Z lol As for the directional gears I doubt very much if you will be able to buy them anywhere unless someone in the group has spares they might part with but after saying that most mills you buy should have them they came standard with every mill. Keep looking mills come up all the time one that suits your needs will turn up sooner or later. Then you can look at a cheap second one to get parts like we do. Unfortunately now the mills are no longer made its pretty much the only way. If you had the skills you could make your own parts but not many do. Bill Thanks for all of the feedback. this is what i was hoping hear back from the group. Does anyone know the approx cost for a full set(7) of drive gears? Does it normally take days/weeks/months to get a set made? would they also have the reversing double gear set available or is that normally found used? I would really prefer 72in between centers which I think requires a 1000 or 1200. I know I can extend the centers on a 900 but I will lose the added working length. I assume I can flip ends to be able to work full length with the proper indexing method to pick up the design. Well Welcome MIke, The great thing is what you need to make this a good mill again is some of the Dyna Glide and the gear sets. All can be purchased at Legacy. Talk to Cindy and she will get you on the list for the gears and send you the Dyna Glide. You may request two shipments as the gears take a bit to get made.
Kind Regards, Ziegler WoodWork & Specialty Thanks for including me into the group. My quick background is Engineer by education/career and hobby woodworker for last 20-30 years. Semi-retired about 5 years ago to startup and run my own sawmill and live edge woodworking hobby business for a few years. Sold the sawmill and took on some short/medium term career jobs past 3 years. I still have a chainsaw mill which I pull out from time to time to slab out a nice chunk of walnut, oak, cherry, etc. I bought a nice Axiom CNC router in late 2021 while back in semi-retire mode, but found it to be too much time on the computer and not enough woodworking, plus had introduced the world of glitchy electronics to woodworking which was frustrating. Sold that when I went back to work again since did not like seeing it sit in the corner of my shop unused. I have always enjoyed working on carving walking sticks so while picking that up again bump into a thing called the Craftsman router crafter which intrigued my engineer side as a possible tool for making walking sticks. Found an unused still in the original box router crafter on ebay and while waiting for it to show up was watching videos online. BOOM! that's when I found the Legacy Ornamental Mill and now I'm really intrigued. I went to see a Legacy 900 today that was listed on Craigslist so I got my first hands on experience. I ultimately did not buy it today based on a few issues/concerns so I wanted to post my comments/questions about what I saw today to get feedback. The units was a 900 on a factory rolling stand. Positives were it had the factory Z-axis indexer, rotary table, and follower attachment. Concerns were they guy only had one 3in drive gear. No other drive gears, no right/left gear, no .25x/2x gears no router bits, x-axis seemed pretty stiff turning, z-axis seemed pretty stiff also compared to the y-axis which was very smooth/easy. I'm not sure what I was expecting but the unit just did not seem as smooth operating as I expected it to be. The lack of drive gears and gear accessories was real draw back because I can fabricate almost anything else needed but not the gears. It seems like the lack of those can turn a unit into a parts machine based on some of the posts I have read. I also really wanted 60in between center for walking sticks without having to do a bed extension/part flip process. That is not a deal killer, but the lack of gears and binding x-axis spooked me a little bit. The guy was a retired machinist and it appeared he had not used the machine very little which seemed odd if it was working properly. I'm glad I went and saw it and was a little bummed to not bring it home, but could get comfortable with the decision. I can always go back if I change my mind and it is still available since about a 2hr drive 1. Is there anywhere to get drive gears made and at what cost? 2. Is it normal for the x-axis to be a lot stiffer than the other two? 3. What would you consider a deal on the machine as described? 4. Anything else I should think about in the future if I go see others? Thanks again for letting me join the game. These ornamental mills are really interesting.
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