For my needs, the LMS kit lacked extended travel away from the operator. I need to be able to move the tool holder past the chuck for a part I make. I have a fixture in a quick change tool holder that holds three small parts that get a 1.3mm slot milled it them. I put the end mill in the chuck and feed the parts past it to cut a screwdriver slot. Not optimal but when lacking a mill it works fairly well. And beats the way I was doing it, cutting a slot with a Dremel tool and filing each one by hand.?
Ryan
On Feb 21, 2022, 1:31 AM -0500, Tony Jones <tony@...>, wrote:
Ryan H wrote:
> I don't have access to a mill to cut the carriage and the LMS kit only addressed part of what I wanted to do so I did it all myself, on my lathe.
I have a mill, several.
Curious what was lacking in the LMS kit? it seems to achieve both more travel and relocating the travel. The same as "the Mike route". Obviously it's $$$ and not DIY
> What Mike means by "If I were doing this modification again then I would not mill out the carriage slot. Instead I would simply move the leadscrew nut 25 mm further back on the cross slide.
> This would achieve the same result as extending the slot" is that if you move the nut further back on the slide there's no need to mill out the slide. Moving the nut back accomplishes the same
> goal, giving the nut more room to travel towards the operator. Both ways effectively do the exact same thing and no milling is needed with just moving the nut farther back.
I understood the wording of what he wrote wrt accomplishing the same (and what you say isn't - no offense intended - any clearer) but I'm just not grokking it :-)? I suspect it won't make any sense until I take everything apart and re-read at which time I'll have an "ah ha!" moment.
I do like the idea of making a new screw from the perspective of also making a custom mated feed nut.? ? ? I'm assuming it would alleviate the need to do this:?
Thanks for the reply.
