Thanks for sharing the videos. Are there ever any of the 200 still out there for sale???
On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 6:02 PM 'Curt George' via Legacy Ornamental Mills < legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Hello Ken and Daina > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e45JdyzQ-FE > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKMimY9JGk8 I made these video (on Bill's > web.) A few months ago. > they are not the best quality but this video shows the 200 in use. > > I hope you enjoy them. > > C.A.G. > > > > On Saturday, February 17, 2024 at 05:12:09 PM EST, Ken and Diana < > mman7...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks for sharing the history of the 200, I have never heard of that. > Looks like a neat little machine. > Ken > > > On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 3:13 PM 'Curt George' via Legacy Ornamental Mills < > legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Hello Everyone. I was asked today about MY Legacy 200. > > The 200 was made for a very short production run, ( I think it was only a > year? but I could be wrong.) As a saw it, Legacy wanted to get into the > pen making market, The Beall company was making there Pen Wizard machine > (which in my mind is just a smaller LOM.) So Legacy decided to get into > this market. > The 200 was born. The 200 is a very small machine compared to any other > LOM before. > Instead of having an "X,Y,&,Z axis, Legacy removed the Y axis and made a > free floating Z axis. Due to the small size, Legacy only made two gears > that could be used on the 200. (depending on which gear was on the acme > screw you could go fast to turn or slow to rope. > I feel in love with this machine, but bye to time I tried to buy it, it > was no longer in production, But I did buy some parts that were left over, > So today I still own two free floating Z axis's for the 200. > Years went by and one day, Someone in our group found a 200 on Market > place. and contacted me, to let me know. > I hesitated buying it, at first, but ended up getting lucky and was able > to buy it. > The 200 is one very NEAT Machine, but it was very limited on what it could > do. > The very first thing that I did was to make a bracket so this machine > could hold a angle grinder instead of the laminating router it was designed > for. (Note: I bought a Veil lathe duplicator cutter head years before I > bought the 200.) > I made a number of simple MOD's to my 200. > first the legs, I made it self standing. (the legs came form an old Wood > Chuck mill that I bought.) > Then I added a motor drive for the headstock. replaced the dead center > with a ball bearing one for the tailstock. Added a Legacy banjo and gear > set to this 200. (I need to add a second bearing set and added a chain to > hook up the gears to the 200.) NOW my 200 could be used just like my 1000, > but I found out one small problem with this idea. the Legacy 1000 gearing > were designed to make much larger cuts that just did not look right on > smaller parts. So again I re-worked my machine, by adding an 5/8-8 Acme > screw to the 200. (this basically reduces all the gears by 1/2, So If I > am using the standard gear set, with a C gear/ 3" pitch, this just made the > pitch 1 1/2") This MOD allowed me to make pitches on smaller parts that the > Legacy could not do. > Latter I found that the Z axis worked well, but when I adjusted the > follower I could not control the depth of cut. So I than added a mic. onto > the headstock so I could adjust the follower by .001 (or finer if I > wanted.) > Today I am VERY Happy with my Little Frankenstein's monster, which I call > my Supper 200, (or just my 200 most of the time.) > > Here are a few pix. > > C.A.G > > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/legacy-ornamental-mills/1960706218.2056072.1708200770535%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/legacy-ornamental-mills/1960706218.2056072.1708200770535%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/legacy-ornamental-mills/CAE5s5cu1HZ-Tx7Nx6wYmMGu8j%3D6EXyoGYHkxqODqa6YY%2B2kZiQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/legacy-ornamental-mills/CAE5s5cu1HZ-Tx7Nx6wYmMGu8j%3D6EXyoGYHkxqODqa6YY%2B2kZiQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/legacy-ornamental-mills/524659851.2078175.1708210942131%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/legacy-ornamental-mills/524659851.2078175.1708210942131%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. 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