karateed

You know we can and will BJ,

Ed......:-)

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gregW

Hi Bj,
you're welcome..I'm glad it worked

it looks like you had to trim it down to fit between the rails...whats the purpose of offsetting the new plate from the tailstock?

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bobj3

Hi gregW

The " offsetting of the new plate " it's needed for the adjustment part of the live center tail stock..the one that came with the machine was a full threaded bolt with a sharp point on the end and a black plastic knob.
see 1st set of snapshots,
I could have bolted the flat steel stock to the stock tail end bar and use the 3 Allen bolts to move it in and out with a light tap with a hammer but I'm almost sure the Allen bolts will put marks on the 3/4" guide rods that's the heart of the machine, one small nick and it would stop or hang up router base plate from moving up and down the rails...

Your'er right I did cut off both ends of the mouning plate to get it to fit just right...the only error I ran into was to lining it up on dead center of the mount once the bolts where free, I just made setup block to fix that error, once the setup block is in place the center point of the live center is dead on with the one in the head stock of the machine and the live center bar is just right...
Now it takes about 10 sec. to line it back up once a new turning is in place and it turns nice and free now on the live center


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gregW

Hi Bob,

got it..thanks

I was thinking that if you bolted a plate to the tailstock with two threaded holes for your tensioning rods the live center would keep its alignment to the headstock, but it sounds like your setup block is doing the same thing.

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bobj3

Hi gregW

I was thinking about the same lines but the threaded rods would need to be left and right hand threads on the same rods, so they could move the plate in and out much like a wooden clamp works...I have a set or two of the rods for the wood clamps but I'm a bit lazzy and I didn't want to drill and tap the holes in the tail stock plates...

But if I run into a error with the way it is now I guess I will need to do that but I do like to use the KISS way most of the time...

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http://www.routerforums.com/86898-post1.html
Besure and click on the Up Arrow key ▲ on the Youtube video, you can select other youtube videos on router tables
http://www.woodworkingonline.com/?s=dovetail
Machine Cut ▼
http://www.woodworkingonline.com/200...cut-dovetails/

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gregW

Hi Bob,
you're right

the holes in the alignment plate would need to be a slip fit for the adjustment rods instead of threaded in order to keep it simple.

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bobj3

Just some more snapshots of the tail stock..

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http://www.woodworkingonline.com/?s=dovetail
Machine Cut ▼
http://www.woodworkingonline.com/200...cut-dovetails/

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http://www.woodshopdemos.com/menu2.htm

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S Bolton

I am somewhat proud to have one of the longest thread on this forum. I pick good subjects.

Hah.

Steve Bolton

karateed

Very nice BJ....I have my car apart right now (my brother and I are replacing the engine) so won't get into the woodshop this week (and I'm back to work tomorrow).

When I do, I'm going to finish the speaker stands and get my router craft set up and give it a whirl.

Ed......:-)

harrysin

Steve, I don't wish to take any glory from you, your thread was a very interesting one however, before the end of page two it had been hi-jacked and turned into a totally different thread, this was also very interesting but I think the forum rules dictate that this should have been a separate thread.

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