Okay gotcha on the side load.
I've checked the side load deflection and on this 20 year old (get yer mind out of the gutter) machine, it's minimal, also that play is adjustable, the carriage mounts are mounted with eccentric bolts, loosening the nuts and turning the bolts results in increasing or decreasing the amount of play or friction present along the length of the arm.
On another note, the motor is a 110 volt, prolly 1750 or 3750 rpm, I seem to recall somewhere someone made a spindle that was driven by an external motor. This rpm is to low for router performance, my thinking at this point is to use a cog belt to increase the speed. And now, finally the question,what is a good speed to shoot for for routing operation?
and I'm not sure about my math, so any help here would be appreciated, but seems to me if this is 3750 rpm motor and we need high rpm for routing, 6 inch pully on the motor and 1 inch on the driven end would produce 22500 rpm, is that too much to expect?
Thanks
jerry |