TS adjustment locks . . .

[steve mackay]

Took me about a year to find a gripe about my Grizzly TS. Found it today. Instead of a l;ocking "knob" on the tilt & height adjustments I want a cam or lever lock I can operate with my thumb while I hold the wheel with the same hand. My OTHER hand is holding either my sample or ruler against the blade. Yes, I understand the engineering behind the knob design but that does'nt mean some engineer in a dark, back room can't figure this out. NASA can put folks into space . . . this one should be a snap !

[imschur]

Took me about a year to find a gripe about my Grizzly TS. Found it today. Instead of a l;ocking "knob" on the tilt & height adjustments I want a cam or lever lock I can operate with my thumb while I hold the wheel with the same hand. My OTHER hand is holding either my sample or ruler against the blade. Yes, I understand the engineering behind the knob design but that does'nt mean some engineer in a dark, back room can't figure this out. NASA can put folks into space . . . this one should be a snap !

Ha! You think like Paulietools and myself. We ponder improvements all the time. We dream of steppers and servos to dial in the height and tilt.

[steve mackay]

Bloody heck ! Servo height adjustment with a digital readout. Even better . . . a limit switch that cuts the servo when the blade raises and meets my sample part. I got chills. When I get to heaven St. Peter says "Welcome Steve, we got something in the back room just for you !".

[imschur]

Paul and I were actually working on a tilt and height display. Then I gave him one of those new digital angle gauges like on the home page and he lost interest. We also rolled around the idea of a stepper with some BCD switches integrated into one of those router lift thingys for setting router height in the table. Imagine clicking in 250 and have the router elevate 1/4"...

 We have lots of ideas just a lack of time and money. 

[paulietools]

Its funny that this is still here. I was beating this idea around in my brain again just the other day. I have found an industrial angle sensor that I am trying to get a sample of. It has both an x and y tilt sensor so it can do the blade tilt and also the height. I am trying to figure out if I need to linearize the tilt angle as it maps to blade height. I have found out that the number of turns on the blade height handwheel is linear with regard to height so maybe the angle of the arbor is the same way.

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